First published in 1998, this volume explores how in the seventeenth century depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks, cripples, dwarfs in the Baroque period in order to set these images in their context and explain this obsession with difference.
Barry Libert Book order





- 2020
- 2016
The Network Imperative
- 230 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Prologue: Digital networks are eating the world -- Part I. The promise: the value is in the network -- Networks have big advantages -- To be a network leader, you need to think and act differently -- Part II. The 10 principles: Creating network value -- Principle 1. Technology: from physical to digital -- Principle 2. Assets: from tangible to intangible -- Principle 3. Strategy: from operator to allocator -- Principle 4. Leadership: from commander to co-creator -- Principle 5. Customers: from customer to contributor -- Principle 6. Revenues: from transaction to subscription -- Principle 7. Employees: from employee to partner -- Principle 8. Measurement: from accounting to big data -- Principle 9. Boards: from governance to representation -- Principle 10. Mindset: from closed to open -- Part III. The pivot: implementing network value -- Pinpoint: identify your starting point -- Inventory: take stock of what you have and what you need -- Visualize: create your new network business model -- Operate: invest and realize your network business -- Track: measure your progress and performance with big data -- Epilogue: May the power of the network be with you
- 2009
Barack, Inc
- 179 pages
- 7 hours of reading
In 'Barack, Inc.', Barry Libert and Rick Faulk present the Obama campaign as a business, identifying lessons any business leader can use to maximise performance.
- 2000
Cracking the Value Code
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
How Can Your Company Crack The Value Code? The authors of this book suggest an answer. Organizations thrive or fail based on how they design, invest in, and manage their entire portfolios of value for your company in the New Economy? Cracking the Value Code lays out four easy-to-understand steps to help enterprise, manage your company as a portfolio of assets, and use information to measure and report all your assets. What to do differently and how to do it is the focus of this book. The authors' mission is to help you see, invest in, manage, and measure all of what matters in the New Economy.