Rutger Bregman

Gebundenes Buch

Moral Ambition

Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

Übersetzer: Moore, Erica

Beschreibung

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Business Books of the Year From the author of the New York Times bestsellers Humankind and Utopia for Realists—“a more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell” (The New York Times )—comes a bold manifesto daring us to harness our talents and transform our idealism into action, all with the goal of making the world a wildly better place. A career consists of 2,000 workweeks, and how you spend that time is one of the most important decisions of your life. Still, millions of people are stuck in in mind-numbing, pointless, or just plain harmful jobs. There’s an antidote to this waste of talent, and it’s called moral ambition. Moral ambition is the will to be among the best, but with different measures of success. Not a fancy title, fat salary, or corner office, but a career dedicated to the best solutions to the world's biggest problems— whether that means tackling climate change, making pandemics history or fighting Big Tobacco. In Moral Ambition, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman reveals how our conventional definitions of success are harming us and the planet, and shows how we can shift the focus from personal gain to societal benefit. In the process, he explains, we will join a growing movement of pioneers who are already living out this ethos. They're the builders, the problem-solvers, the doers who have chosen a path less traveled. A guidebook to finding that path for ourselves, Moral Ambition reminds us that the real measure of success lies not in what we accumulate, but in what we contribute, and shows how we, too, can build a legacy that truly matters.

Autor

Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition, an organization that helps ambitious people work on the most important global problems. His books Utopia for Realists and Humankind have been translated into 46 languages and have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. He lives in New York City.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780316580359
• ISBN-10: 031658035X
• Artikelnr.: 71953126

Rezensionen

His appeal is very much to the high-flyer, looking for a cause that will give the fullest moral satisfaction ... Yet he is also admirably realistic about the need to park one's own desire for a certain kind of sainthood, to accept the need for ordinary self-care so as to avoid falling victim either to burnout or - worse - to one's own mythology, and to remain clear about what measurable differences might look like ... Offers a bracingly hopeful perspective, insisting on the necessity of doing all you can to allow yourself to be sensitised and resensitised to that which eats away at the dignity not only of humanity but (an important element in Bregman's argument) of the entire living environment Guardian

I believe [Rutger] calls himself a historian, he's not. He's a revolutionary in a sensible coat Russell Crowe

A rallying cry ... His appeal is very much to the high-flyer, looking for a cause that will give the fullest moral satisfaction ... Yet he is also admirably realistic about the need to park one's own desire for a certain kind of sainthood, to accept the need for ordinary self-care so as to avoid falling victim either to burnout or – worse – to one's own mythology, and to remain clear about what measurable differences might look like ... Offers a bracingly hopeful perspective, insisting on the necessity of doing all you can to allow yourself to be sensitised and resensitised to that which eats away at the dignity not only of humanity but (an important element in Bregman's argument) of the entire living environment