{"title":"Bruce Whitfield","description":"\u003cp\u003eFind your next read from \u003cstrong\u003eBruce Whitfield\u003c\/strong\u003e. Reader favourites include \u003cem\u003eThe Upside of Down\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIt's About Tyme\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGenius How to Thrive at the Edge of Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest for teens and young adults. Browse every Bruce Whitfield book we stock below, with delivery across South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9781770107687","title":"The Upside of Down","description":"New edition with updated content. \n\n In a world shaped by Covid-19 and characterised by fake news, manipulated feeds of information and divisive social-media agendas, it's easy to believe that our time is the most challenging in human history. It's just not true.\n\n \n\n It is a time of extraordinary opportunity. But only if you have the right mindset and attitude. Fear of the future breeds inaction and leads to strategic paralysis. Problem-solvers thrive in chaotic and uncertain times because they act to change their future. Winners recognise that in a world of growing uncertainty, you need to resort to actions on things you can control.\n\n \n\n A robust mindset is the one common characteristic Bruce Whitfield has identified in two decades of interrogating how South Africa's billionaires and start-up mavericks think differently. They don't ignore risk or hope that problems will go away. They constantly measure, manage, consider and weigh up opportunities in a tumultuous sea of uncertainty and find ways around obstacles.\n\n \n\n If, as Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller suggests, the stories we tell affect economic outcomes, then we need to tell different stories amidst the noise and haste of a rapidly evolving world.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39357929783411,"sku":"9781770107687","price":247.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/B_c36d08c7-c7bd-4947-8b3f-878302ffcf9f.webp?v=1752687217"},{"product_id":"9781770109445","title":"The One Thing Small Ideas, Big Outcomes a Brighter Future for South Africa","description":"\"If South Africa were a cat, it would be rapidly running out of its nine lives. In 2024, voters sent a clear signal to the fractured ANC that they had run out of patience. It lost its majority and was forced to enter a difficult multi-party coalition. Broadcaster, author and public speaker Bruce Whitfield consistently looks for opportunity in times of uncertainty. The author of the 2020 bestseller The Upside of Down, and Genius (2022), now brings you The One Thing, which draws on his unparalleled access to a network of business leaders, founders and deep thinkers. Bruce challenged his contributors to identify 'One Thing' that, if they were president for half an hour, they would order to be implemented so it could have a catalytic effect throughout the economy. You will hear from a host of people, including: Sean Summers, tasked with turning around Pick n Pay, on the first step he would take to turn around the country; Mining CEO Mike Teke on what he learned playing football on the fields of KwaThema, and how he would apply that to the country; Wits Chancellor Judy Dlamini on the power of education; and Chair of the Businesswomen's Association Mandisa Nkwanyana about harnessing the power of women as a catalyst for change. You will also hear from those who inspire us to be more than we think we can be, such as maestro Ralf Schmitt, who took the raw talent of a group of children from Limpopo to the finals of America's Got Talent, plus a range of money managers, editors, CEOs, academics and founders of some of the country's most successful startups. Bruce also challenges readers to define their 'One Thing' and yes, he offers his own 'One Thing', too. Probably the simplest and most achievable action of all, it requires just one behaviourial change.\" --","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42203030290547,"sku":"9781770109445","price":304.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/TheOneThing_300dpi_withshoutquote_1.jpg?v=1752663732"},{"product_id":"6000600068725","title":"The One Thing (Signed Copy)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBroadcaster, author and public speaker Bruce Whitfield consistently looks for opportunity in times of uncertainty. 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You will hear from a host of people, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSean Summers, tasked with turning around Pick n Pay, on the first step he would take to turn around the country;\u003cbr\u003eMining CEO Mike Teke on what he learned playing football on the fields of KwaThema, and how he would apply that to the country;\u003cbr\u003eWits Chancellor Judy Dlamini on the power of education; and Chair of the Businesswomen’s Association Mandisa Nkwanyana about harnessing the power of women as a catalyst for change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou will also hear from those who inspire us to be more than we think we can be, such as maestro Ralf Schmitt, who took the raw talent of a group of children from Limpopo to the finals of America’s Got Talent, plus a range of money managers, editors, CEOs, academics and founders of some of the country’s most successful startups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBruce also challenges readers to define their ‘One Thing’ and yes, he offers his own ‘One Thing’, too. Probably the simplest and most achievable action of all, it requires just one behaviourial change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"READERS WAREHOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42361727680627,"sku":"6000600068725","price":290.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/the_57fe3465-d51e-4268-8e8e-b1f4a9cfd8c4.webp?v=1752670162"},{"product_id":"9781770109834","title":"It's About Tyme","description":"Imagine starting with a bold mission in 2012: to achieve financial inclusion through a multi-country bank. Within a decade, this vision becomes one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world.\n\nNow, picture starting this business in South Africa, a country the IMF ranked as the hardest place to do business out of 49 countries surveyed. Imagine having the foresight to partner with a family-owned food retailer to establish a low-cost, physical banking footprint. Such success didn't go unnoticed and one of the world's largest banks acquired the company. A clash of cultures followed and, just four years later, the divestment. Despite the risks, one of South Africa's wealthiest entrepreneurs stepped in to take control. Then came Covid-19. The business nearly hit the wall and shareholders demanded a successor of their choosing be trained. A frantic 217 pitches for fresh capital yielded no success. And then, at the eleventh hour, there was a reprieve as one investor and then another stepped up.\n\nNow, imagine launching in the Philippines, replicating and improving what works while designing an entirely new cloud-based banking stack with over 500 Vietnamese developers. Imagine assembling a team from Italy, the US, the UK, South Africa, Vietnam, the Philippines, Australia, India and Zimbabwe. Picture shaping a culture where failure is part of growth, and audacity is the norm, not the exception. Imagine becoming the global poster child for AI in banking and receiving an email in June 2025, informing you that your company is one of Time magazine's Top 100 most influential companies in the world. This incredible story unfolds within the pages of It's About Tyme. As Roger Grobler, a long-standing investor in Tyme puts it, 'Courage and audacity are not just bold strategies - they're the safest. Because playing it safe is, ironically, the riskiest thing you can do.'","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43247210627187,"sku":"9781770109834","price":342.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/It_s_About_Tyme_300dpi_with_TIME_logo.jpg?v=1759300762"},{"product_id":"9781770108455","title":"Genius How to Thrive at the Edge of Chaos","description":"South Africa and its fraught political economy provide a fascinating case study into how it takes a particular brand of genius to thrive in a difficult domestic environment and to take the ideas and the businesses that deliver them from local to global.\n\nGenius tells the stories of some of the extraordinary individuals, companies and industries whose ideas, products and raw materials solve problems and add value across the globe. Greatness comes from acting on purpose, and there is a generation of South Africans solving problems for the future. Learn how Pratley beat Armstrong to the moon, how a former Eskom quantity surveyor capitalised on Britain's obsession with meerkats to create the UK's most visible price comparison website, how to take a Mediterranean-style food concept to the Mediterranean, and how a device designed to beat diamond smuggling made it from the set of a popular US hospital drama into emergency rooms and pathology labs across the US.\n\nGenius examines what it takes to thrive in an increasingly complex, fast-paced and divisive global environment. 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