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Get the Summary of Daniel H. Pink's When in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a...
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Get the Summary of Joel Kotkin's The Coming of Neo-Feudalism in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw...
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Get the Summary of Tom Kelley & David Kelley's ‘Creative Confidence’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the "creative types." But, two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative. In an incredibly entertaining...
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#1 By removing distractions and getting to the point, the LFC process is more efficient and effective than traditional therapy. It also allows clients to focus on what's important and get to satisfaction quickly.
#2 Laser-Focused Coaching is similar to traditional therapy in that it removes distractions and gets to the point. However, it differs in that it focuses on...
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Get the Summary of Javier Blas and Jack Farchy's The World for Sale in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The World for Sale lifts the lid on one of the least scrutinized corners of the world economy: the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard, and sell the earth's resources. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global markets,...
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Get the Summary of Sabri Suby's Sell Like Crazy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: How do I know? Well, five short years ago I was dead broke. I'd just started my business from a rented bedroom. With no more than $50 and an old computer that my girlfriend bought me. I was desperately searching for clients and practically "begging" people just to speak with me.
Fast-forward to today,...
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Get the Summary of Chris Miller's Chip War in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil-the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything-from missiles to microwaves, smartphones to the stock market-runs on chips....
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Get the Summary of Patrick M. Lencioni's The Motive in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In what may be his edgiest page-turner to date, Lencioni thrusts his readers into a day-long conversation between rival CEOs. Shay Davis is the CEO of Golden Gate Alarm, who, after just a year in his role, is beginning to worry about his job and is desperate to figure out how to turn things around....
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Get the Summary of Bjorn Lomborg's False Alarm in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Arctic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults...
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Get the Summary of Jenara Nerenberg's Divergent Mind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As a successful Harvard and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and devoted mother, Jenara Nerenberg was shocked to discover that her "symptoms"-only ever labeled as anxiety-were considered autistic and ADHD. Being a journalist, she dove into the research and uncovered neurodiversity-a framework...
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Get the Summary of Trey Gowdy's Doesn't Hurt to Ask in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: You do not need to be in a courtroom to advocate for others. You do not need to be in Congress to champion a cause. From the boardroom to the kitchen table, opportunities to make your case abound, and Doesn't Hurt to Ask shows you how to seize them. By blending gripping case studies from nearly two...
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Book Preview: #1 By the late 1990s, it was clear that PG needed to win in skin care. Skin care constitutes about a quarter of the total beauty industry and has the potential to be highly profitable. Oil of Olay was struggling. It wasn't PG's only skin-care brand, but it was by far the largest and best known.
#2 PG invested in the SK-II brand, Cover Girl, Pantene, Head Shoulders, and...
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Book Preview: #1 If you're the kind of high-achieving, goal-oriented person who reads books like this, you're probably used to running into obstacles. Most people quit, but they don't quit successfully.
#2 There are two things that make Hannah Smith a quitter: being extremely smart and focused, and also a lot of other things. You can't try to do everything, especially if you want...
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Book Preview: #1 The life cycle of a society is similar to that of a tree. Times of crisis reveal what is and isn't working, and these are the times when obsolete and dysfunctional systems and practices collapse or fall by the wayside.
#2 A true Reset transforms not just the way we innovate and produce, but also the way we live and work. It brings about new housing patterns, realigning...
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Book Preview: #1 Monica Padman, who left college with two degrees in hand, moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actor and comedian. She eventually became a trusted employee of actress Kristen Bell, and when Bell and her husband, actor Dax Shepard, asked her to work for them full-time, she was understandably reluctant.
#2 There are three different categories of contributors...
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Get the Summary of Kashmir Hill's Your Face Belongs to Us in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Hoan Ton-That, a Vietnamese-Australian tech enthusiast, found his passion in computers and music after facing bullying in Melbourne. His tech ventures in San Francisco caught investor Naval Ravikant's eye, leading to a move to the Bay Area. Despite a scandal with ViddyHo, Ton-That continued developing apps and became interested...
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Book Preview: #1 I have called this book the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, placing the emphasis on the prefix general. The object of such a title is to contrast the character of my arguments and conclusions with those of the classical theory of the subject, upon which I was brought up and which dominates the economic thought of the governing and academic classes...
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Get the Summary of Carmine Gallo's The Bezos Blueprint in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Bezos Blueprint" delves into the communication strategies that propelled Amazon's success, focusing on Jeff Bezos's ban on PowerPoint in favor of written narratives. The book explores Bezos's writing skills, particularly in his shareholder letters, and how his communication methods have influenced leaders and entrepreneurs......
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#1 Exploratory analysis is what you do to understand the data and figure out what might be noteworthy or interesting to highlight to others. When you are at the point of communicating your analysis to your audience, you should be in the explanatory space, meaning you have a specific thing you want to explain.
#2 When it comes to explanatory analysis, you must first...
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Book Preview: #1 When Brian began his career as a manager, he was instantly fascinated by everything about it. He loved planning and budgeting, counseling and performance appraisals, and he felt like he had been created to manage.
#2 When a headhunter friend of Kathryn's called and asked if she would be interested in interviewing for the CEO position at a small exercise equipment...
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