Mark Carney – Value(s) Building a Better World for All
By Mark Carney (Penguin Random House, 2022)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2021 National Business Book Award • Shortlisted for the 2021 Donner Prize
“In Our Digital World, We Have Never Had to Be More Human.”
“Markets don’t have values — people do.”
by Mark Carney, “Values: Building a Better World for All” (2022)
As companies re-evaluate where to base their data, people, and technology, the question is no longer just about cost or efficiency — it’s about values alignment. In an increasingly fragmented world, organizations will thrive where they can anchor themselves in inclusion, fairness, sustainability, and resilience.
Mark Carney’s Values: Building a Better World for All is both a moral wake-up call and a practical roadmap. Drawing on his experience as a global financial leader and now Prime Minister of Canada, Carney argues that today’s crises — inequality, climate change, mistrust, and digital disruption — all stem from a crisis of values. In this profoundly important book, Mark Carney offers a vision of a more humane society and a practical manifesto for getting there. How we reform our infrastructure to make things better and fairer is at the heart of every chapter, with outlines of wholly new ideas that can restructure society and enshrine our human values at the core of all that we build for our children and grandchildren.
He challenges us to re-imagine success not as market gain but as human progress. This is a manifesto for leaders, entrepreneurs, and citizens who believe that the future must be built on shared purpose and collective responsibility.
“In a fragmenting world, the future belongs to those who choose values that build, not divide.” “We’re living in a time that confuses market value with human values — a world where we know the price of Amazon the company, but not the value of the Amazon rainforest.”
by Mark Carney, “Values: Building a Better World for All” (2022)
How the World Thinks
| Book and Lecture by philosopher Julian Baggini
Julian Baggini sets out to expand our horizons in How the World Thinks, exploring the philosophies of Japan, India, China and the Muslim world, as well as the lesser-known oral traditions of Africa and Australia’s first peoples. Interviewing thinkers from around the globe, Baggini asks questions such as: why is the West more individualistic than the East?out the book
This groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or less the same time. These early philosophies have had a profound impact on the development of distinctive cultures in different parts of the world. What we call ‘philosophy’ in the West is not even half the story.
Lessons from Lululemon’s Journey
by Chip Wilson (Author)
“I believe every person in life has a different genetic makeup and unique expertise that the world needs. My experise was seeing athletic and apparel trends. I had no way of knowing just how huge yoga would be and how lululemon would explode like nothing else. The little company that I founded in Kitsilano, Vancouver, would go on to redefine how a generation of people dressed and lived.” By Chip Wilson, “Lessons from Lululemon’s Journey,” (2025)
Lululemon’s journey is filled with valuable lessons for anyone navigating the business world. From its humble beginnings to becoming a global powerhouse in the athletic apparel industry, Lululemon’s success story is a source of inspiration for entrepreneurs and business leaders alike.
This is a book about ordinary people who took an opportunity to be creative, to be innovative, and to maximize their potential. Chip Wilson’s part in this story comes from the learning of thousands of mistakes. He set the culture, business model, quality platform, and people development program and then got out of the way. Lululemon’s exponential growth, culture, and brand strength have few peers, and it is because of those employees who choose to be great. This book is also about missed opportunity – five years of missed opportunity. Chip was playing to win while the directors of the company he founded were playing not to lose.
Lessons from Lululemon’s Journey
“Sports has a global appeal. If there’s anything that can bring the world together it’s the Olympics and other sporting events.”
Chip Wilson mentions, “many entrepreneur owned businesses that became mature public companies along the way lose sight of the fact that for any brand, only half of its value is financial. The other half is the subconscious feeling that brand creates for the customer.”
“With all the hype around AI, some pundits have predicted that it will eventually do everything for us. Are we headed for a future like the one in the movie WALL E where everybody’s overweight and sits around on floating lounge chairs all day? I don’t think so. My hunch is that the movement toward better health and fitness will continue.”
By Chip Wilson, “Lessons from Lululemon’s Journey,” (2025)
A Guardian and a Thief
by Megha Majumdar
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE
Megha Majumdar’s electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning—longlisted for the National Book Award—is set in a near-future Kolkata ravaged by climate change and social disharmony, in which the lives of five characters collide and their fates become inextricably linked—a propulsive and shattering tour de force..
A Guardian and a Thief tells two stories: the story of Ma and her family, their struggle to emigrate to America, and their devastation in the wake of the theft that changes their fate to one of implacable tragedy; and the story of Boomba, the thief, whose hunger and desperation to care for his family drive him to commit a crime whose consequences he cannot fathom. With stunning control and command, Megha Majumdar paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of two families whose destinies become inexorably entangled, wresting compassion from each narrative as the complexities of each character’s circumstances—their helplessness in the face of poverty and corruption, and the need to stave off encroaching catastrophe—are captured with clarity and piercing empathy.
A masterful new work from one of the most exciting voices of her generation.
“Megha Majumdar is wise beyond her years. She’s able to bring in cultural conflicts and interweave the way people live and relate to each other in such a way that leaves us spellbound.”
— Oprah
In this episode of Oprah’s Book Club: Oprah and Megha Majumdar discuss her magnificent new book, A Guardian and a Thief, a 2025 National Book Awards finalist and Oprah’s 119th Book Club selection. Megha’s evocative, beautifully crafted exploration of our changing world sparked a lively and thoughtful conversation among readers at a Starbucks coffeehouse in New York City. Starbucks’ delectable drink pairing for this book is an Iced Banana Cream Protein Matcha.
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