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Summary of Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins | Includes Analysis Preview: Awaken the Giant Within by motivational speaker Tony Robbins is a comprehensive self-help book designed for people who want to feel in control of all aspects of their lives and fulfill their greatest potential in their relationships, career, finances, and personal lives. Everyone is born with the capacity to be happy and achieve their greatest destiny, but not everyone...
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Summary of Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz Includes Analysis
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz is a guide to using hostage negotiation techniques in business and personal negotiations.
Modern negotiation strategies taught in business school usually center on classic texts that describe negotiation without factoring in emotions or irrational behavior. In reality, all negotiations involve emotional factors...
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Summary of Deep Work by Cal Newport Includes Analysis
Deep Work describes a method of engaging with one's professional efforts in a full and immersive manner to produce better results. This type of focused effort does not require longer hours. Instead, a seasoned practitioner can accomplish more in a shorter time frame. Furthermore, the product of this working style will be of a higher quality than what others produce when they attempt to work while...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Brad Stone's The Everything Store by Instaread
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon recounts the rise of Amazon since it was founded in 1994. Simultaneously, the book is a partial biography of the company's CEO and founder, Jeff Bezos, whose personality, values, and life experiences have had enormous influence shaping the company as it exists today. He is a much-feared but much-respected leader whose...
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Summary of Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins Includes Analysis
Awaken the Giant Within by motivational speaker Tony Robbins is a comprehensive self-help book designed for people who want to feel in control of all aspects of their lives and fulfill their greatest potential in their relationships, career, finances, and personal lives.
Everyone is born with the capacity to be happy and achieve their greatest destiny, but not everyone is happy...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of The Arbinger Institute's Leadership and Self-Deception by Instaread
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Leadership and Self-Deception by the Arbinger Institute is a business fable that illustrates the ways that self-deception can undermine interpersonal relationships and productivity. It begins with a new product-line lead employee, Tom Callum, at the fictional Zagrum Company. He's meeting with the company's executive vice president, Bud...
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Summary of Start with Why by Simon Sinek Includes Analysis
Start With Why by Simon Sinek is a self-help book for business leaders seeking ways of gaining authenticity through a focus on their purpose.
Most companies rely on manipulations to attract customers and employees, they use short-term motivators that do not inspire or encourage loyalty. Customers who are not inspired will stop buying the product as soon as the company cannot keep up the manipulative...
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Summary of Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler Includes Analysis
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics is an introduction to behavioral economics and an account of Richard H. Thaler's role in developing and popularizing the field.
The traditional economic theory of the 1970s presumed that people made economic decisions rationally. In this economic vision, rational individuals-or Econs, as Thaler calls them-know what they want, and...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Thomas L. Friedman's Thank You for Being Late by Instaread
Thomas Friedman's Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Acceleration is about the accelerating pace of change in modern society. The event that inspired the book's title occurred when some of Friedman's colleagues from the New York Times failed to arrive on time for an appointment. Friedman realized that the time spent waiting,...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Jonah Berger's Contagious by Instaread
Contagious: Why Things Catch On is a playbook for marketing in the internet age, when products and ideas live or die based on whether or not they can go viral. Author Jonah Berger describes six principles that, when applied together, can often predict whether an idea or product will spread.
Any product or idea can go viral. It doesn't take a big advertising budget or a celebrity...
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Summary of Money Making Mom by Crystal Paine Includes Analysis
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Money Making Mom by Crystal Paine is a finance guide that encourages women to generate greater income streams through creative, entrepreneurial business ideas. It lays out ways for women, especially those who have left the workforce or are interested in balancing work with family, to discover business ideas, create and implement an action plan, network with other entrepreneurs...
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Summary of The Third Wave by Steve Case Includes Analysis
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The Third Wave relates AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case's reflections on his career and the future of the technology industry in America. Part memoir, part analysis of the industry, The Third Waveis also a cautionary tale to would-be entrepreneurs who believe the culture of solo founders and tech disruption will always be valued in the future. The book is named for futurist...
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Summary, Analysis and Review of George Akerlof's and et al Phishing for Phools by Instaread
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In Phishing for Phools, George Akerlof and Robert Shiller explain the economics of fraud by incorporating fraudulent and unfair transactions into free-market economic models. Conventional economic models that presuppose a free market often assume that customers make decisions based on their long-term interests. They posit that the market moves...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Gary Taubes's The Case Against Sugar by Instaread
The Case Against Sugar argues that sugar is a toxic substance responsible for a wide array of health problems including diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. Author Gary Taubes recounts the history of how sugar came to be cultivated and ultimately refined into the cheap, ubiquitous substance that is eaten globally today. He takes on the American sugar industry for...
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