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How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less
by Nicholas BoothmanWhether selling, managing, negotiating, planning, collaborating, pitching, instructing-or on your knees with a marriage proposal-the secret of success is based on connecting with other people. Now that connection is infinitely easier to make through Nicholas Boothman's program of rapport by design.How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less is the work of a master of Neuro-Linguistic Programming whose career is teaching corporations and groups the secrets of successful face-to-face communication. Aimed at establishing rapport-that stage between meeting and communicating-How to Make People Like You focuses on the concept of synchrony. It shows how to synchronize attitude, synchronize body language, and synchronize voice tone so that you instantly and imperceptibly become someone the other person likes. Reinforcing these easy-to-learn skills is knowing how to read the other person's sensory preferences-most of us are visual, some are kinesthetic, and a minority are auditory. So when you say "I see what you mean" to a visual person, you're really speaking his language. Along the way the book covers attitude, nervousness, words that open a conversation and words that shut it down, compliments, eye cues, the magic of opposites attracting, and more. It's how to make the best of the most important 90 seconds in any relationship, business or personal.
How to Make Pro Baseball Scouts Notice You: An Insider's Guide to Big League Scouting
by Al Goldis John WolffThe purpose of this book is twofold: one, to give ballplayers an inside look at just what scouts are really looking for in their search for professional ballplayers; and two, to help them market and sell themselves so that scouts will know they exist and see them put their best skills on display. This book has been written with the intent of helping ballplayers keep their dreams of playing pro ball alive and flourishing. All any ballplayer wants is a shot at playing pro ball, and by reading this book, they will be that much closer to having their dreams come true.
How to Make Real Money Selling Books: A Complete Guide to the Book Publishers' World of Special Sales
by Brian JudThe worldwide book market generates almost $90 billion annually, and more than half of those sales are made in non-bookstore outlets such as discount stores, airport shops, gift stores, supermarkets, and warehouse clubs. How to Make Real Money Selling Booksprovides a proven strategy for selling books to these enterprises. You will learn about developing a product strategy, conducting test marketing, contacting prospective buyers, promoting your product, selling to niche markets, and much, much more.
How to Make Things Faster: Lessons in Performance from Technology and Everyday Life
by Cary MillsapSlow systems are frustrating. They waste time and money. But making consistently great decisions about performance can be easy, if you understand what's going on. This book explains in a clear and thoughtful voice why systems perform the way they do. It's for anybody who's curious about how computer programs and other processes use their time and about what you can do to improve them.Through a mix of personal vignettes and technical use cases, Cary Millsap reviews the process of improving performance and provides best practices for optimizing systems efficiently. You'll learn how to identify the information needed to improve a system, how to find the root causes of performance issues, and how to fix them. You'll also learn how performance optimization is both a skill set and a mindset, and how to develop both over time.If you're a computer professional whose success relies on software that goes fast, by the end of this book you'll be able to identify, view, scope, analyze, and remedy performance issues with consistency and confidence.
How to Make Things Happen
by Beatriz Muñoz-SecaThis book offers models and frameworks to analyze your service delivery systems as a whole. It presents the framework to solve customer problems by delivering the right knowledge at the right time to the right place and take advantage of the efficiency that technology and algorithms offer.Why do so many brilliant plans fail to deliver in practice? Why can’t your employees just do what you want them to do? In most cases, because the operations eco-system in which those plans must be deployed fails to fully understand the problem that needs to be solved.The fourth industrial revolution is seeing advances in Artificial Intelligence industrialize the service sector. But, despite the cost-cutting that these advances offer firms are still struggling to stay competitive. That is because they think that cost-cutting delivers increased efficiency whereas it is the other way around: increased efficiency cuts costs. And the heart of efficiency in delivering services is people and their knowledge.As industrialization drives ever more standardized offerings and ever little human contact it is in those rare moments of human interaction where the greatest opportunity to add or destroy value lies. It is human brains and the knowledge they contain that are best suited to problem-solving and individualizing client solutions. The real competitive edge will become the ability to foresee and individualize problem-solving.To do this, firms must start thinking of knowledge as inventory – who knows what, who needs to know what and where and when do they need to know it.
How to Make Virtual Teams Work: Manage and Empower a Virtual Team That Thrives While Working from Home (Ignite Reads)
by Robert GlazerA remote book on building a successful virtual culture from USA TODAY and WALL STREET JOURNAL bestselling author, Robert Glazer!Close to twenty-five percent of professionals today work remotely in some capacity (and even more since the start of the pandemic). There are a lot of benefits to companies who employ a virtual workforce: cost savings on office space and other overhead, improved job performance, better employee morale, and a broader pool of talent from which to recruit. However, there are also challenges: communication limitations, social isolation, and managing distractions, among others.In his book, How to Make Virtual Teams Work, Robert Glazer taps into his decade of experience managing a virtual office—and winning twenty "best places to work" awards—while providing leaders with a step-by-step playbook on how to intentionally build a remote workforce and culture by developing core values that provide guidance in hiring talent who works well remotely, creating comprehensive onboarding plans, using technology to communicate and connect with remote employees, and more. This goes way beyond a typical HR strategy book. By employing these specific strategies, leaders can build a remote environment that thrives and make it one of their key competitive advantages.
How to Make Work Not Suck: Honest Advice for People with Jobs
by Carina MaggarGoogle doesn't have the answer Dream big, plan smallWhen in doubt, HelveticaAssumption is the mother of all fuck upsStay curiousNo one knows what they're doing, neither should youIn this straight-talking guide to the real world of work, discover genuinely useful advice that will help you find the confidence to go for that promotion, quit your job, break into that industry, nail that pitch or climb over a creative brick wall. With 120 irreverent, unusual but always useful insights, this book will help you reach your career goals.
How to Make Work Not Suck: Honest Advice for People with Jobs
by Carina MaggarGoogle doesn't have the answer Dream big, plan smallWhen in doubt, HelveticaAssumption is the mother of all fuck upsStay curiousNo one knows what they're doing, neither should youIn this straight-talking guide to the real world of work, discover genuinely useful advice that will help you find the confidence to go for that promotion, quit your job, break into that industry, nail that pitch or climb over a creative brick wall. With 120 irreverent, unusual but always useful insights, this book will help you reach your career goals.
How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity
by Patricia Carlin Dustin FenstermacherThe Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity for cats to become superstar "personalities" with revenue-generating multimedia brands--but only if you know how to cash in. With How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity, readers can unlock the secrets of grooming your kitty for success, creating a terrific viral video, managing your cat's burgeoning stardom, and much more. Packed with practical tips and helpful diagrams, this indispensable resource shows how ordinary housecats can follow in the venerable pawprints of the Internet's brightest stars.
How to Make Your Company a Recognized Sustainability Champion
by Brendan MayIs it really worth the time and resources to make your company a recognized sustainability champion? And how on earth should you go about it? In this concise and practical book, Brendan May demonstrates why the companies that will be fit for purpose in 2020 are addressing sustainability now, and then outlines a strategy for how to do that.May draws on 15 years' experience on the front line of sustainable business – as Chief Executive of a business–NGO partnership, as an environmental campaigner and as advisor to multinational corporations on sustainability strategy and communications – and outlines the emerging trends that will change the rules of the game forever.By the time you've finished this book you'll know who you need to know, what you need to know, and the dos and don'ts in the quest to make your business a true champion of sustainability.
How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide
by Jane Bryant QuinnNOW COMPLETELY UPDATED to reflect the changes in tax legislation, health insurance, and the new investment realities. In this &“highly valuable resource&” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Quinn &“provides simple, straightforward&” (The New York Times) solutions to the universal retirement dilemma—how to make your limited savings last for life—covering mortgages, social security, income investing, annuities, and more! Will you run out of money in your older age? That&’s the biggest worry for people newly retired or planning to retire. Fortunately, you don&’t have to plan in the dark. Jane Bryant Quinn tells you how to squeeze a higher income from all your assets—including your social security account (get every dollar you&’re entitled to), a pension (discover whether a lump sum or a lifetime monthly income will pay you more), your home equity (sell, rent, or take a reverse mortgage?), savings (how to use them safely to raise your monthly income), retirement accounts (invest the money for growth in ways that let you sleep at night), and—critically—how much of your savings you can afford to spend every year without running out. There are easy ways to figure all this out. Who knew? Quinn also shows you how to evaluate your real risks. If you stick with super-safe investment choices, your money might not last and your lifestyle might erode. The same might be true if you rely on traditional income investments. Quinn rethinks the meaning of &“income investing,&” by combining reliable cash flow during the early years of your retirement with low-risk growth investments, to provide extra money for your later years. Odds are, you&’ll live longer than you might imagine, meaning that your savings will stretch for many more years than you might have planned for. With the help of this book, you can turn those retirement funds into a &“homemade&” paycheck that will last for life.
How to Make Your PhD Work: A Guide for Creating a Career in Science and Engineering
by Thomas R. CoughlinHow to Make Your PhD Work A modern guide for a challenging modern PhD market The job market for PhDs in science and engineering has become immensely more challenging in the last decade. As of 2022, less than 5% of PhDs attain permanent academic positions, yet books about navigating PhD programs continue to treat permanent academic employment as the assumed norm. Today’s PhDs need tools not only for completing their programs successfully, but for positioning themselves in a varied and competitive job market. How to Make Your PhD Work meets this need, with concrete, empowering advice that takes account of modern job market challenges and opportunities. It cuts through widespread misconceptions about STEM careers and funding, offers tips for navigating difficult degree programs, and supplies current or prospective PhDs with the tools to radically transform their post-degree career prospects. How to Make Your PhD Work readers will also find: Detailed discussion of topics including postdoctoral fellowships, nonacademic careers, success in industry, and more Twelve stories from PhD students who talk about their relationship with their advisor, their success with their project, and their transition into their careers Worksheets and case studies designed to help PhDs map out potential career paths An author with extensive experience of the nonacademic job market and a real understanding of the challenges STEM PhDs face How to Make Your PhD Work is ideal for any STEM PhD student, prospective student, or early career researcher looking to improve their positions in the job market.
How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps: INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
by Richard Harpin**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'Richard is the real deal . . . If you don't believe simple steps can deliver a business worth billions, read this, and then think again.'JAKE HUMPHREY, author of High Performance'How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps is a blueprint for success, full of practical strategies that actually work.'SARA DAVIES, TV Dragon and author of The Six-Minute Entrepreneur'There's nothing that entrepreneurs need more than inspiration and practical advice . . . Richard's book has this in bucketloads . . . This is a crucial toolkit.'THEO PAPHITIS, TV Dragon & Retail Entrepreneur_____________________________________________Richard Harpin became an entrepreneur at the age of just seven when he started selling conkers to his school friends. Fifty years later he sold a company he founded, HomeServe, for over £4 billion.In How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps, Harpin shares the lessons he learned along the way, and the things he wishes he had known that could have got him to a billion-pound valuation faster.He reveals his uncomplicated, grounded and honest approach to business, showing that start-up success is not rocket science. And he shares his practical wisdom for building a company from the ground up, identifying opportunities, creating effective marketing, planning for future growth, hiring brilliant people and developing the key qualities of a great leader.It will inspire a new generation of CEOs, fitting them for a world of ever-evolving challenges, and revealing the path to extraordinary success.Richard Harpin's book 'How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-07-14.
How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps: INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
by Richard Harpin**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'Richard is the real deal . . . If you don't believe simple steps can deliver a business worth billions, read this, and then think again.'JAKE HUMPHREY, author of High Performance'How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps is a blueprint for success, full of practical strategies that actually work.'SARA DAVIES, TV Dragon and author of The Six-Minute Entrepreneur'There's nothing that entrepreneurs need more than inspiration and practical advice . . . Richard's book has this in bucketloads . . . This is a crucial toolkit.'THEO PAPHITIS, TV Dragon & Retail Entrepreneur_____________________________________________Richard Harpin became an entrepreneur at the age of just seven when he started selling conkers to his school friends. Fifty years later he sold a company he founded, HomeServe, for over £4 billion.In How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps, Harpin shares the lessons he learned along the way, and the things he wishes he had known that could have got him to a billion-pound valuation faster.He reveals his uncomplicated, grounded and honest approach to business, showing that start-up success is not rocket science. And he shares his practical wisdom for building a company from the ground up, identifying opportunities, creating effective marketing, planning for future growth, hiring brilliant people and developing the key qualities of a great leader.It will inspire a new generation of CEOs, fitting them for a world of ever-evolving challenges, and revealing the path to extraordinary success.Richard Harpin's book 'How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-07-14.
How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps: Simple Lessons for Making Extraordinary Wealth
by Richard HarpinA master entrepreneur reveals the nine essential lessons to achieve extraordinary success'Richard is the real deal . . . If you don't believe simple steps can deliver a business worth billions, read this, and then think again.'JAKE HUMPHREY, author of High Performance'How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps is a blueprint for success, full of practical strategies that actually work.'SARA DAVIES, TV Dragon and author of The Six-Minute Entrepreneur'There's nothing that entrepreneurs need more than inspiration and practical advice . . . Richard's book has this in bucketloads . . . This is a crucial toolkit.'THEO PAPHITIS, TV Dragon & Retail Entrepreneur_____________________________________________Richard Harpin became an entrepreneur at the age of just seven when he started selling conkers to his school friends. Fifty years later he sold a company he founded, HomeServe, for over £4 billion.In How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps, Harpin shares the lessons he learned along the way, and the things he wishes he had known that could have got him to a billion-pound valuation faster.He reveals his uncomplicated, grounded and honest approach to business, showing that start-up success is not rocket science. And he shares his practical wisdom for building a company from the ground up, identifying opportunities, creating effective marketing, planning for future growth, hiring brilliant people and developing the key qualities of a great leader.It will inspire a new generation of CEOs, fitting them for a world of ever-evolving challenges, and revealing the path to extraordinary success.
How to Make a Difference: The Definitive Guide from the World's Most Effective Activists
by Kate Robertson Ella Robertson"An exceptionally relevant book for this age of activism." Bob GeldofWith a foreword by Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the UN (1997-2006).How to Make a Difference is a practical roadmap to modern day activism created by the powerful and imaginative minds behind the world's biggest campaigns including Colin Kaepernick, Emma Watson, Sir Bob Geldof, Fatima Bhutto, Black Lives Matter, Doutzen Kroes, Yeonmi Park, Terry Crews, Cher, Matt Damon, Paul Polman and Gina Miller; collectively they combine the latest models of thinking, their real life experiences, radical techniques and effective advice in order to help incentivize everyone and anyone who has ever wondered, how can I help? From How to Change the Law, How to Protest, How to Use Social Media Effectively, How to End a Problem Forever and How to Change a Big Organization, this book educates as much as it encourages and informs us all to see the world as something that can and must be changed. This book will help you find an active role in positive, necessary activism and meaningful change on every scale across the globe. The only book to pool together the biggest names in activism and showcase how they have used their voices, their networks and their abilities to change the world around us.How to Make a Difference speaks to a generation who are switching selfie-sticks for protest placards and will showcase how everyone has the ability to be the change they want to see in the world.If not now, when? If not you, who?Perfect for fans of This Is Not a Drill, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference and There Is No Planet B.
How to Make a Difference: The Definitive Guide from the World's Most Effective Activists
by Kate Robertson Ella Robertson"An exceptionally relevant book for this age of activism." Bob GeldofWith a foreword by Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the UN (1997-2006).How to Make a Difference is a practical roadmap to modern day activism created by the powerful and imaginative minds behind the world's biggest campaigns including Colin Kaepernick, Emma Watson, Sir Bob Geldof, Fatima Bhutto, Black Lives Matter, Doutzen Kroes, Yeonmi Park, Terry Crews, Cher, Matt Damon, Paul Polman and Gina Miller; collectively they combine the latest models of thinking, their real life experiences, radical techniques and effective advice in order to help incentivize everyone and anyone who has ever wondered, how can I help? From How to Change the Law, How to Protest, How to Use Social Media Effectively, How to End a Problem Forever and How to Change a Big Organization, this book educates as much as it encourages and informs us all to see the world as something that can and must be changed. This book will help you find an active role in positive, necessary activism and meaningful change on every scale across the globe. The only book to pool together the biggest names in activism and showcase how they have used their voices, their networks and their abilities to change the world around us.How to Make a Difference speaks to a generation who are switching selfie-sticks for protest placards and will showcase how everyone has the ability to be the change they want to see in the world.If not now, when? If not you, who?Perfect for fans of This Is Not a Drill, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference and There Is No Planet B.(p) 2019 Octopus Publishing Group
How to Make a Fortune from the Biggest Market Opportunitiesin U.S.History
by Ron InsanaA CNBC senior analyst reveals what you need to know to take advantage of today's economy to rebound and rebuild lost nest eggs and fortunes. For those in the know, today's financial headlines don't spell disaster. They spell the sale of a century. But it takes a trustworthy veteran of the trading trenches to guide investors through these volatile times. Drawing on his two decades as a financial reporter, plus three recent years working on Wall Street, Ron Insana helps readers restore their depleted portfolios by showing them: ? How to determine reemerging opportunities in submerged markets ? Where to invest in really legit real estate ? How to magnify the magnificent opportunities in municipal bonds and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) ? Where to go mining for the rare gems among the heaps of junk bonds The paperback edition is completely revised and updated with timely advice for a recovering economy. For anyone sifting through retirement- account wreckage or a tanking net worth, How to Make a Fortune from the Biggest Market Opportunities in U.S. History is the ultimate rescue manual for reaping rich rewards.
How to Make a Habit of Success
by Bernard HaldaneAN ELECTRIFYING NEW TECHNIQUE THAT SHOWS YOU HOW TO BUILD ON YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS SO THAT SUCCESS BECOMES A CONTINUING PATTERN…A HABIT!Within the pages of this remarkable book are the clear, simple techniques that can help you make your life richer and more rewarding. There are scores of simple, easy-to-follow suggestions and methods that can help you turn seeming failure into success.As you read through these pages you’ll be surprised to see how easy it is to make success a continuing repetitive action...a habit. Here you’ll discover the secrets that can open your life to success...techniques that have been commended by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and by scores of leading educators, industrialists, and others.In the quarter of a century that Bernard Haldane has devoted to studying what makes people work and how they become successful, he has interviewed and helped more than 40,000 management and professional people. He served as consultant to the placement department of the Harvard Business School and lectured to graduate classes at Fairleigh-Dickinson University. He was chairman of the board of trustees of the Foundation for Re-employment, Inc.
How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death And Dollars In American Medicine
by Tom Mueller“Inspiring and deeply distressing.” —Ezekiel J. Emanuel, author of Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care? How did a lifesaving medical breakthrough become a for-profit enterprise that threatens many of the people it’s meant to save? Six decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the heart, became the first human organ to be successfully replaced with a machine. Yet huge dialysis corporations, ambitious doctor-entrepreneurs and Beltway lobbyists soon turned this medical miracle into an early experiment in for-profit medicine—and one of the nation’s worst healthcare catastrophes. With powerful insight and on-the-ground reporting, New York Times best-selling author Tom Mueller introduces an unforgettable cast of characters. Heroic patients, including a Hollywood stuntman and body double, risk their lives to blow the whistle on how they’ve been mistreated. An unpaid activist living in a south Georgia trailer park fights to save patients from involuntary discharge from their lifesaving care. Industry insiders put their careers on the line to speak out about the endemic wrongs and pervasive inequality they’ve witnessed—and about dialysis executives who dress as musketeers and Star Wars characters to exhort their employees to more aggressive profit-seeking. Mueller evokes the scientific ingenuity and optimism of the 1950s and 1960s, when the burgeoning field of organ transplant and early dialysis machines offered long-awaited hope for lifesaving care. That is, until a New York salesman had himself dialyzed on the floor of the House, and Congress made renal disease the only “Medicare for All” condition—opening the financial floodgates for Big Dialysis. Of the thousands caught in a web of corporate greed, a disproportionate number are Black and Latino, highlighting the stark racial divides already endemic to American medicine. How to Make a Killing reveals dialysis as a microcosm of American medicine and poses a vital challenge: find a way to fix dialysis, and we’ll have a fighting chance of fixing our country’s dysfunctional healthcare system as a whole, restoring patients, not profits, as its true purpose.
How to Make a Living Trading Foreign Exchange
by Courtney SmithSolid Forex strategies for capturing profits in today's volatile marketsHow to Make a Living Trading Foreign Exchange puts the world of Forex at your fingertips. Author Courtney Smith begins with an introduction to the Forex market-what it is and how it works. He then delves into six moneymaking techniques for trading Forex, including his unique Rejection Rule that doubles the profit of basic channel breakout systems. In addition to two specific methods for exiting positions at critical levels, Smith also discusses powerful risk management techniques and successful trading psychology strategies that will keep you one step ahead of the game.Reveals the secrets of the Forex market and how to create a lifetime of income trading itOffers advice on maximizing profits during the volatile swings that have increasingly become the normOther titles by Smith: Option Strategies, Third Edition, Seasonal Charts For Futures Traders, Commodity Spreads, and Profits Through Seasonal TradingMake more from today's Forex market with How to Make a Living Trading Foreign Exchange.
How to Make a Living as a Professional Magician: Business First, Sleight-of-Hand Later
by Matt PattersonYou may be able to pull off an impressive card trick, but can you recruit new clients and tailor your show to different occasions? In the only guide of its kind, professional magician Magnus shows you the ins and outs of managing your career in magic. His tried-and-true methods will convert you — presto, change-o — into a successful professional.Magnus will help you with developing the persistence and conviction you'll need for a career in close-up magic, making your pitch to potential employers, and promoting and marketing your act. He'll advise you on the tricks that will provide you with the most mileage — the time-tested audience-pleasers that can be performed in a wide variety of situations — and the best ways to practice them to ensure a smooth execution. His advice on cultivating skills that contribute to a successful performance, getting along with coworkers, and handling hecklers will save you untold aggravation and smooth the path toward a magical career.
How to Make a Living as a Writer
by James Scott BellIt's the best time on Earth to be a writer. More writers are making money today than at any other time in history. For centuries few have been able to support themselves from the quill or the keyboard alone. Not anymore. With the rise of ebooks and indie publishing there are now more opportunities than ever for writers to generate substantial income from their work. And there is still a traditional publishing industry that needs new talent to keep growing. In How to Make a Living as a Writer, you'll learn the secrets of writing for profit and increasing your chances of making a living wage from your work. Here are some of the subjects covered: - The 7 Secrets of Writing Success - The 8 Essentials of Your Writing Business - How to Reach Your Goals - Keys to a Winning System - How to Stay Relentless - Unlocking Your Creativity - How to Write More, Faster - Comparing Traditional and Self-Publishing - How to Go Traditional - How to Go Indie - How to Form Multiple Streams of Writing Income - How to Write a Novel in a Month - How to Choose Non-Fiction Subjects - How to Keep a Positive Mental Attitude - Resources for Further Study And much more, all to help you write what you love and earn what you’re worth. James Scott Bell has made a living as a writer for nearly two decades, and shares with you everything he knows about the best practices for turning your writing dream into a reality.
How to Make a Million Before Lunch
by Rachel BridgeFed up with working for someone else? Want to start your own business but don't want to wait years to reap the rewards? Take every shortcut you can ... and get there fast.As Enterprise Editor of The Sunday Times, Rachel Bridge has met hundreds of the world's most successful entrepreneurs. Now she shares their expertise to show you the top 20 shortcuts to creating a booming business - and the energy-sapping, time-wasting traps to avoid along the way - so you too can make a million - asap.
How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy
by Rainer Kattel Wolfgang Drechsler Erkki KaroA ground-breaking account which shows how the public sector must adapt, but also persevere, in order to advance technology and innovation From self-driving cars to smart grids, governments are experimenting with new technologies to significantly change the way we live. Innovation has become vitally important to states across the world. Rainer Kattel, Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo explore how public bodies pursue innovation, looking at how new policies are designed and implemented. Spanning Europe, the USA and Asia, the authors show how different institutions finance new technologies and share cutting-edge information. They argue for the importance of &‘agile stability&’, demonstrating that in order to successfully innovate, state organizations have to move nimbly like start-ups and yet ensure stability at the same time. And that, particularly in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, governments need both long-term policy and dynamic capabilities to handle crises. This vital account explores the complex and often contradictory positions of innovating public bodies—and shows how they can overcome financial and political resistance to change for the good of us all.