検索キーワード： プロフェッショナル・学問

In his 50s, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a big house in the suburbs, a loving family, and a top job at an ad agency with a six-figure salary. By the time he turned 60, he had lost everything except his Ivy League education and his sense of entitlement. First, he was downsized at work. Next, an affair ended his 20-year marriage. Then, he was diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumor, prognosis undetermined. Around the same time, his girlfriend gave birth to a son.

本書を読めば、富を築くことは決して夢物語ではなく、人は望むような人生を送れることがわかるはずだ。お金や名声、報償、幸福は、それを得る覚悟と決意のある人なら、誰でも手に入れられるのだ。

学問を挫折した男はコミュニケーションをどのように磨いて世界一のお金持ちになったのか？部下を鼓舞、経営陣を説得、オンラインミーティング、大人数のプレゼンなど

Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken soccer balls on the run-down streets of East London, Gary Stevenson dreamed of something bigger. As luck would have it, he was good at numbers. At the London School of Economics, wearing tracksuits and sneakers, Stevenson shocked his posh classmates by winning a competition called “The Trading Game.” The prize? A golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader at Citibank.

「白血病で予後が良くない９歳の女の子に、“わたし、死んじゃうの？”と聞かれたら、何と答えますか？」

「介護職は最後の手段」それでも私が続けるワケ介護職員が立ち尽くす老いと死の現場――

楠木建（一橋ビジネススクール特任教授・経営学者）絶賛！「大きな仕事を成し遂げるのはどんな人物か？本書はこの問いへのほとんど完璧な回答を与えている」

ベストセラー日記シリーズ 「大原先生、もっと叱ってください」 パート保育士の並田さんが私だけに聞こえるようにつぶやいた。

In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than eleven million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto.

重要なのは、何かを選ぶこと。選ばなければ、人生は始まらない。選ばざるを得なかった仕事に黙々と熱狂する。運命に従え。道は開ける。

■衝撃の回顧録、ついに刊行！　高度成長、バブル、経営危機、Ｖ字回復、そしてゴーン逮捕──ゴーン会長のもと、日産社長を務めた男はそのとき何を考えていたのか？　赤裸々に明かされる白熱の手記。

緩和ケアに携わる身でありながら、萩原健一さんの命を奪ったのと同じ希少がんを患った医師、大橋洋平さん。初めて「患者として」実感した苦しみや気付きを朝日新聞に投稿し、大反響を呼んだ。

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.

Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist. Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world’s richest man by creating America’s most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America.

彼女の一つのツイートが私の人生を変えた……この裁判は私の存在証明だった。

With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife of a Princeton dean to remark, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" But the many scientific and personal achievements of this Nobel Prize-winning physicist are no laughing matter. Here, woven with his scintillating views on modern science, Feynman relates the defining moments of his accomplished life.

From the author of Steve Jobs, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil.

■シリコンバレーの奇跡　1999年、若き異端児マスクが始めた会社X.comと天才ティール＆レヴチンが始めたコンフィニティは数奇にも、シリコンバレーのとある建物で隣り合って入居していた。

時代の風潮や圧力に主張を変える人が相次いだ激動の時代、戦前戦後を通じ一貫した態度を貫いた国民的指導者。極められた思想をもった安岡正篤が下記の問いにも答えていく。・成功するために必要な「器の大きさ」とは?・何歳になっても「いいことが」が次々起こる発想とは?・どんな壁でも突破できる「こころの持ち方」とは?・「その他大勢」から一歩抜け出すための処方箋とは?政財界のトップも心酔した、時代の波に振り回されることない金言があなたの運命を切り開く指針となり得るだろう。目次-第1章 品格をつくる/第2章 人間学のすすめ/第3章 新しい自分に生まれ変わる/第4章 ものの見方・考え方/第5章 こころを磨く/第6章 運命を変える/第7章 人とのつきあい方/第8章 人を動かす・世の中を動かす

2010年「国境なき医師団」に参加以来、20回近い海外派遣を経験した著者による生と死のドキュメント。