100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

Adrift

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
From New York Times Bestselling author Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of America and the reasons behind its current social and economic crisis 
In Adrift, Scott Galloway looks from the past to the present - from 1945 to the 2020s - to reveal how America has reached its current state of political, social and economic crisis. It is on the brink of massive change, change that will disrupt the working of its economy and drastically impact its financial backbone, the middle class. 
 
Telling America's story through 100 charts, Galloway demonstrates how crises such as Jim Crow, World War II, and the Stock Market Crash of 2008, as well as the escalating power of technology, an entrenched white patriarchy, and the socio-economic effects of the pandemic, created today's perfect storm. 
 
Adrift seeks to make sense of it all, and offers Galloway's unique take on where America is headed and what it will become. It's a vital guide for anyone who wants to understand the state the country is in and how and why its influence on the world has changed.

Scott Galloway is Gordon Gekko with a social conscience.

Intelligent, thoughtful, sometimes snarky, and often humorous.

Scott Galloway is Professor of Marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur. He has founded nine companies, including Prophet, Red Envelope and L2. He is the bestselling author of The Four and The Algebra of Happiness and has served on the boards of directors of The New York Times Company, Urban Outfitters and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. His Prof G and Pivot podcasts, No Mercy/No Malice blog, and Prof G YouTube channel reach millions. In 2020, Adweek named Pivot Business Podcast of the Year. In 2019, Scott founded Section4, an online education platform for working professionals where he teaches business strategy: section4.com.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
In Adrift, Scott Galloway looks from the past to the present - from 1945 to the 2020s - to reveal how America has reached its current state of political, social and economic crisis. It is on the brink of massive change, change that will disrupt the working of its economy and drastically impact its financial backbone, the middle class. 
 
Telling America's story through 100 charts, Galloway demonstrates how crises such as Jim Crow, World War II, and the Stock Market Crash of 2008, as well as the escalating power of technology, an entrenched white patriarchy, and the socio-economic effects of the pandemic, created today's perfect storm. 
 
Adrift seeks to make sense of it all, and offers Galloway's unique take on where America is headed and what it will become. It's a vital guide for anyone who wants to understand the state the country is in and how and why its influence on the world has changed.

From Crisis to Opportunity

Post Corona

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
Bestselling author of The Four and NYU Business School professor delivers an insightful, urgent analysis of who stands to win and who's at risk to lose in a post-pandemic world. 
 
'Thought-provoking... As good an analysis as you could wish to read.' FINANCIAL TIMES 
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The Covid-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red and blue, the mask-wearers and the mask-haters. Some businesses, like Amazon and video conference software maker Zoom, woke up to find themselves crushed under an avalanche of consumer demand. Others, like the restaurant, travel, hospitality and live entertainment industries, scrambled to not become instantly obsolete. But the pandemic has not been a change agent so much as an accelerant of trends that were already well underway. 
 
In Post Corona, Galloway outlines the contours of both crisis and opportunity that lie ahead. While the powerful tech monopolies will thrive in the disruption other businesses, like higher education, will struggle to maintain a value proposition that no longer makes sense when we can't stand shoulder to shoulder. 
 
Combining his signature humour and brash style with razor-sharp business insights, Galloway offers both warning and hope in equal measure. 
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'Entertaining and informative.' THE ECONOMIST

Fast, fluent and persuasive. For anyone interested in a clear-eyed overview of what is happening now, and what that might mean in future, this is as good an analysis as you could wish to read.

Few  are better positioned to illuminate the vagaries of this transformation  than Galloway, a tech entrepreneur, author and professor at New York  University's Stern School. In brisk prose and catchy illustrations, he  vividly demonstrates how the largest technology companies turned the  crisis of the pandemic into the market-share-grabbing opportunity of a  lifetime.

Scott is a genius at engaging an audience in an intelligent, thoughtful, sometimes snarky and often humorous manner.

If there is a blunter, more opinionated, faster-talking expert on the internet than Scott Galloway, I haven't come across him. Or her.

The Covid-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red and blue, mask-wearers and mask-haters. Some businesses, like Amazon and video conference software maker Zoom, have been crushed under an avalanche of consumer demand. Others, like the restaurant, travel and live entertainment industries, have scrambled to not become instantly obsolete. But the pandemic has not been a change agent so much as an accelerant of trends that were already well underway. In Post Corona, Galloway outlines the contours of both crisis and opportunity that lie ahead. While the powerful tech monopolies will thrive in the disruption other businesses, like higher education, will struggle to maintain a value proposition that no longer makes sense when we can't stand shoulder to shoulder. Combining his signature humour and brash style with razor-sharp business insights, Galloway offers both warning and hope in equal measure.

The pursuit of success, love and what it all means

The Algebra of Happiness

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Four, a provocative book of hard-won wisdom for achieving a fulfilling career and life.

The Algebra of Happiness offers raw and vulnerable wisdom, delivered with heart. We all can learn from Galloway's mistakes and insights.

Derek Sivers, author of 'Anything You Want'

This book is required reading for everyone with a heartbeat. Scott delivers profound, hard-earned life lessons that will resonate with anyone who hasn't had their common sense surgically removed.

Eric Barker, author of 'Barking Up the Wrong Tree'

From the New York Times bestselling author, a provocative book of hard-won wisdom for achieving a fulfilling career and life. 
 
 - How can you have a meaningful career, not just a lucrative one? 
- Is a work/life balance really possible? 
- What does it take to make a long-term relationship succeed? 
- What can you do now so there are no regrets aged 40, 50 or 80? 
 
 As Scott Galloway puts it, by the time you hit your mid twenties sh*t gets real. Life become stressful. Even the smart, the hard working and the elite can feel lost in a chaotic, noisy and unpredictable world. As a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, the debate in Galloway's MBA class often veers away from business strategy to the challenging issue of life strategies. Which is why Galloway, in his signature, take-no-prisoners style, has developed a dynamic formula for a life well lived. 
 
 In The Algebra of Happiness Galloway tells you how life can be navigated and negotiated better to maximise happiness and minimise the inevitable stress. Delivering practical advice and hard-won wisdom on everything from when to own property to how hard to work, this is self-help for anyone struggling with life's big questions. Through simple equations that measure the relationship between success, resilience and failure or the correlation between happiness and money, Galloway attempts to convert intangible advice to tangible equations.

The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

The Four

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong.

Scott Galloway’s The Four is a bareback ride upon the four horses of the economic apocalypse– Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google. It is a timely exposition of the nature and concentration of power in the world today and, as a result, is much more than just a business book…The book contains more insights and provocative ideas than Amazon has Boeing 767s… My recommendation is to walk down to your local book store and buy this– or more likely, buy it on Amazon.

The Four is a fantastic, provocative book about where we are now and where we are going.

Well argued and accessible... refreshingly clear-eyed

Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store

Full of sharp insights and unconventional views

This analysis of the rise of Amazon, Apple, Faceboook and Google stands out because it adds significantly to the tide of criticism currently sweeping over Silicon Valley

When it comes to the digital age, Scott Galloway is Christopher Hitchens with an MBA, namely a brainy and fearless provocateur

A big help in understanding how so many of us have come to completely rely on these tech giants — and what the future holds for other, less powerful companies.

Business Insider, Best Business Books of 2017

Scott is a genius at engaging an audience in an intelligent, thoughtful, sometimes snarky and often humorous manner

Scott Galloway is honest, outrageous and provocative. This book will trigger your flight-or-fight nervous system like no other and in doing so challenge you to truly think differently.

This is that rare book that not only informs but entertains. You’ll never look at these four companies in the same way again

Jonah Berger, author of Contagious and Invisible Influence

As the power of technology’s biggest companies comes under more scrutiny, NYU business professor Galloway reveals how Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google built massive empires

Publishers Weekly, “The Top 10 Business Books of Fall 2017”

If there is a blunter, more opinionated, faster-talking expert on the Internet than Scott Galloway, I haven’t come across him. Or her.

‘A fantastic, provocative book about where we are now and where we are going’ Phil Simon Huffington Post 
 
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. 
 
For all that’s been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. 
 
Instead of buying the myths these companies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions: 
- How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they’re almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? 
- Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? 
- And as they race to become the world’s first trillion-dollar company, can anyone challenge them? 
 
In the same irreverent style that has made him one of the world’s most celebrated business professors, Galloway deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath their shiny veneers. He shows how they manipulate the fundamental emotional needs that have driven us since our ancestors lived in caves, at a speed and scope others can’t match. And he reveals how you can apply the lessons of their ascent to your own business or career. 
 
Whether you want to compete with them, do business with them, or simply live in the world they dominate, you need to understand the Four.

Scott Galloway

Profoundly insightful and a joy to read. Few explain complicated topics better than Scott Galloway.

Morgan Housel, New York Times bestselling author of The Psychology of Money

Not only does Scott walk you through the vital steps to gaining financial independence, he provides compelling advice on how to build character, relationships, and an interesting life.

The decisions you make at the beginning of your professional life have a compounding impact on your chances of success, and this invaluable guide will steer you toward an optimal outcome.

Annie Duke, bestselling author of Thinking in Bets

This is the type of high-impact financial advice that will actually get you to where you want to go.

Lyn Alden, financial analyst and author of Broken Money

The Algebra of Wealth is a book that is about far more than investing and wealth. It&rsquo;s about how your life choices play out in your financial standing and wealth, and Scott delivers his lessons with humor and panache. I cannot recommend it strongly enough!

Aswath Damodaran, professor of finance, Stern School of Business, NYU

A Simple Formula for Success

&lsquo;You need this book.' Steven Bartlett, author of The Diary of a CEO 
 
The world is changing. It's time for a new financial playbook. 
 
In this must-have guide to optimizing your life for wealth, success and happiness, you'll learn: 
 
&bull; how to find and follow your talent 
&bull; what small steps you can take now that pay big returns later 
&bull; how to develop better financial habits 
 
Bursting with practical, game-changing advice from one of the world's most popular business school professors, The Algebra of Wealth is the practical guidebook you need to win today's wealth game. 
 
Today's workers have more opportunities and mobility than any previous generation. They also face unprecedented challenges, including inflation, labour and housing shortages, and climate volatility. 
 
Even the notion of 'retirement' is undergoing a profound rethink, as our lifespans extend and our relationship with work evolves. In this environment, the tried-and-true financial advice our parents followed no longer applies. 
 
In The Algebra of Wealth, Galloway lays bare the rules of financial success in today's economy. In characteristic unvarnished, no-BS style, he explains you what you need to know in order to improve your chances of achieving economic security no matter what.

Scott Galloway

Praise for The Algebra of Wealth

Profoundly insightful and a joy to read. Few explain complicated topics better than Scott Galloway.

Not only does Scott walk you through the vital steps to gaining financial independence, he provides compelling advice on how to build character, relationships, and an interesting life.

The decisions you make at the beginning of your professional life have a compounding impact on your chances of success, and this invaluable guide will steer you toward an optimal outcome.

Profoundly insightful and a joy to read. Few explain complicated topics better than Scott Galloway.

Not only does Scott walk you through the vital steps to gaining financial independence, he provides compelling advice on how to build character, relationships, and an interesting life.

The decisions you make at the beginning of your professional life have a compounding impact on your chances of success, and this invaluable guide will steer you toward an optimal outcome.

Profoundly insightful and a joy to read. Few explain complicated topics better than Scott Galloway.

Not only does Scott walk you through the vital steps to gaining financial independence, he provides compelling advice on how to build character, relationships, and an interesting life.

The decisions you make at the beginning of your professional life have a compounding impact on your chances of success, and this invaluable guide will steer you toward an optimal outcome.

Books by Scott Galloway

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