Contributors

Marshall Goldsmith is corporate America's preeminent executive coach. He is the 2015 Thinkers 50 award winner as the World's Most Influential Leadership Thinker. He is one of a select few consultants who have been asked to work with more than 150 CEOs in the world's top corporations. His PhD is from UCLA and he is on the faculty of the executive education programs at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business. The American Management Association named Marshall one of fifty great thinkers and business leaders who have impacted the field of management, and Businessweek listed him as one of the most influential practitioners in the history of leadership development. Author of the New York Times bestsellers Mojo and What Got You Here Won't Get You There, he has written or edited 35 books, which have sold millions of copies worldwide.

Noah Goldstein is a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he has won awards for both teaching and research. His most recent book is The small BIG. His previous book, Yes!, also co-authored with Martin and Cialdini, is a New York Times bestseller translated in over twenty-five languages. Goldstein has also served on the Scientific Advisory Boards of two Fortune Global 500 companies.

Chris Goodall is a world-leading expert on new and renewable energy technologies. He is the author of multiple books on the climate and future technologies, including What We Need To Do Now, The Switch, and Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate. As well as publishing Carbon Commentary, a website and newsletter on energy efficiency and renewables, he is an investor in new low-carbon technologies and a member of the Advisory Board for the Pictet Clean Energy fund in Geneva.

Paul Goodwin is a statistician, an emeritus professor at the University of Bath, and a former adviser to government departments. He has taught courses on statistics for trades union members, art curators, surgeons, actuaries, civil servants, CEOs and sixth formers, among many others. His most recent book is Forewarned: A Sceptic's Guide to Prediction.

Michael Gordin is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, where he specialises in the history of modern science. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and is a Guggenheim Fellow. His love of language cannot be matched: a veritable polyglot, he speaks Russian, German, English, Ido, Esperanto and Latin among many other languages. He has published on the history of science, Russian history and the history of nuclear weapons.

Helen Gordon is a writer and natural historian. Her books include Being a Writer and the

acclaimed Notes from Deep Time, as well as a novel, Landfall. She has written for 1843 magazine, the Guardian and Wired, edited for Granta, and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire.

British-born, Sam Gosling studied at Leeds University and is now an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas in Austin, where he lives. He has been profiled in the New York Times and other magazines and this is his first book.

Victoria Gosling grew up in Wiltshire and studied at Manchester University and the University of Amsterdam. Victoria is the founder of The Reader Berlin and The Berlin Writing Prize. She divides her time between Wiltshire and Berlin. She is the author of Before the Ruins and Bliss & Blunder @victoriagosling

Eli Gottlieb's The Boy Who Went Away won the prestigious Rome Prize and the 1998 McKitterick Prize from the British Society of Authors. It also received extraordinary notices and was a New York Times Notable book. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Olivia Goldhill is an investigative journalist at STAT and a Jonathan Logan Family Foundation Fellow. She has reported on psychology, pharma, and mental health for more than a decade, and her first book, Psyched, will explore the potential for psychedelics to transform both the existing mental health industry and our understanding of our own minds, while holding those controlling psychedelics to account. Goldhill's work has been recognized as a 2022 British Journalism Awards finalist, 2021 EPPY finalist, and a 2020 Livingston Award finalist.

Jules Goddard is a Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School, where he has taught competitive strategy and creative marketing for 30 years. He was previously Gresham Professor of Commerce and Mercers Memorial Professor at City University. He has written widely on strategic and managerial innovation and has consulted with many organisations around the world.

Born and brought up in Cairo, Waguih Ghali spent much of his adult life in Europe. His stay in London and his suicide in 1969 were described by his friend Diana Athill in After a Funeral (Cape, 1986). Beer in the Snooker Club is his only novel.

Tania Glyde is a counsellor in private practice in London. She specialises in sex and relationships and gender/sexual diversities. She also has a strong interest in addiction.
She is the author of two novels and has been a journalist, copywriter, broadcaster and performer.