Savvy: Navigating Fake Companies, Fake Leaders and Fake News in the Post-Trust Era

Gold Medal at Independent Publisher Book Awards. Winner at the Independent Book Publishers Association Awards. Distinguished Favorite at the Independent Press Awards. Finalist at the American Bookfest Best Book Awards. “The new world of information is overwhelming, but it is not insurmountable. In Savvy, Shiv and Rohini offer hope – and important practical advice – for professionals trying to navigate amidst the chaos. This is a smart and useful book for anyone trying to gain a firmer footing in the Information Age.” -Tom Nichols, author of The Death of Expertise and Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College We face a crisis of trust because people feel there is no longer any truth. Singh and Luthra have written a highly-readable analysis of how it happened and how we might return truth to it’s necessary prominence in a social media-infused society. An urgently needed book. – David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect and founder of Techonomy Media We grew up believing that we could trust our friends, teachers, newspapers, social media feeds, corporations, and politicians. That’s not the case anymore. We are living in the post-trust era. Misrepresentation, exaggerated truths, and outright fake news have become a world-wide phenomenon. Finding truth is like searching for a needle in a haystack and it is only getting harder. Savvy makes it easier. Savvy introduces seminal psychology studies and examples from today’s political and business headlines to illuminate why we human beings are so vulnerable to putting our trust in people, organizations and information that is biased, or outright deceptive, and on the flip side, to doubting credible sources. In the post-trust era, so much is out of our control, yet we can inoculate ourselves. We introduce six human glitches that explain what makes us vulnerable to fakeness and provide recommendations for how we can avoid these human fallacies in the future. As we move to a future dominated by artificial intelligence, where cars drive us better than we drive ourselves and robots become our managers, whom we trust and how we build businesses, engage customers and motivate employees (real or artificially created ones) is going to be markedly different. Savvy provides guidance on how to avoid falling into the psychology traps of today while learning what we need to do to succeed in tomorrow’s world.