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Wiseley is resolving the current published collection from the catalog.
Behind the Stories of Success
Examine the habits, circumstances, trade-offs, and people behind achievement.
Books in this collection
Outliers
Outliers asks why exceptional success is rarely self-made. Moving from Roseto and hockey birth dates to musicians, lawyers, pilots, mathematicians, KIPP students, and a Jamaican family history, it traces how practice, timing, culture, institutions, and inherited opportunity shape achievement—and why redesigning those conditions can widen who gets to flourish.
Shoe Dog
Shoe Dog follows Phil Knight from a Stanford paper about importing Japanese running shoes through Nike’s public debut and his later reckoning with the company’s cost. It asks how a fragile, debt-dependent venture survives unreliable partners, legal and regulatory threats, flawed products, and family strain—and what persistence, luck, trust, and judgment can teach about meaningful work.
