Saturday, November 7, 2026

book: Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings

new book, likely interesting

Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Matter? - Kindle edition by Diamond, Jared. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Can one person change the world?
What qualities determine effective leadership?
How do individual talent and historical circumstances
combine to shape great leaders?

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel,  a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports—seeking to decode how and why leaders matter.

"Jared Diamond's erudite, engaging and thought-provoking book takes us a huge step forward toward understanding how circumstances and individual talents, determination and strategy make leaders that have the potential to change our world (hopefully for the better)." -Daron Acemoglu, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics