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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jon Gordon's The Energy Bus
Positive people and positive teams manifest positive outcomes. The key ingredient? Positive energy.
In The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy (2007), Jon Gordon explains how to cultivate positive energy in your life and career, which you then can share with your coworkers, customers, organization, team, friends, and family. Gordon uses the...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
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1) The definition of an investment is clear: it's an operation which, after careful analysis, promises safety of principal and adequate returns.
2) There are three parts to the process of investing. First, before buying a stock, you must make a thorough analysis of a company and the soundness of its underlying businesses. Second, you need to protect...
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Summary of Chris Guillebeau's The $100 Startup demonstrates how creative individuals can monetize their passions and attain independence from traditional employment. Author Chris Guillebeau argues that solo entrepreneurs can use their skills and personal interests to build a high income even when they only have a paltry amount of startup capital…
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Josh Hawley's The Tyranny of Big Tech.
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1) Big Tech is managed by thieves who drain prosperity and power from society by creating an oligarchy. Consumers' personal data are extracted, tracked, and fed into a vast data machine to produce algorithms that manipulate users with advertisements tailored for them. This produces an online-addicted economy, with a never-ending cycle.
2) Corporate...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mihir A. Desai's How Finance Works
A lot of people have no idea how anything about finance works. However, finance is an essential part in any successful career, and in How Finance Works (2019), economist Mihir A. Desai offers ideas and techniques that you can master and use for the rest of your life. Mihir guides you through the complex financial world by thoroughly unpacking it. He covers the foundations of...
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Summary of Tina Brown's The Vanity Fair Diaries is a personal account of the famous magazine editor's tenure as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, culled from excerpts of her own private journals. Beginning when she was drafted for the job and tracing her steps as she resuscitated the ailing magazine, Brown examines key moments in both the magazine's history and in her own life…
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1) All too often, our society seems to cherish doing things the hard way. This results in the mindset that in order to overachieve, we must overdo. This can lead to problems down the line, because if we're overworking, we're making things more difficult for ourselves.
2) To invert this assumption about our world and work, we need to ask if the opposite is true: "Could our work be made easy?" Asking this simple question can...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Christopher Leonard's The Lords of Easy Money
In The Lords of Easy Money (2022), journalist Christopher Leonard analyzes the decisions and policies of one of the most mysterious American institutions: the Federal Reserve. Leonard explains how the Fed managed the US economic system before, during, and after the financial crash of 2008, and highlights its powers to control interest rates and push banks and investors...
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Summary of Kevin Kelly's The Inevitable is Kevin Kelly's in-depth exploration of the imminent changes on the technological horizon that will ultimately impact all of humanity.
Inevitability, in this context, is defined as a pattern that is unquestionably trending forward due to the ways in which technological developments favor certain functions and behaviors.
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Summary of Ryan Levesque's Ask details the Ask Formula, including the Survey Funnel Formula, that teaches businesses the best way to connect with current and potential customers by cleverly asking them what they want and creating products and marketing to suit those needs. These formulas are repeatable and may provide predictable outcomes, but it is also dynamic, flexible, and evolves with its implementation for each type of business and market…...
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Summary of Joseph E. Stiglitz's The Price of Inequality examines the causes and damaging effects of growing inequality in the United States.
Income and wealth inequality has been on the rise in the United States since the early 1980s and was severely worsened by the global financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the ensuing Great Recession…
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Summary of Ryder Carroll's The Bullet Journal Method introduces a simple, effective organizational method that uses only a pen and notebook to improve productivity and enhance introspection. Author and Bullet Journal creator Ryder Carroll explains how readers can lead a more meaningful life, vanquish challenging tasks, and streamline their workflow by creating a custom planner using the book's journaling system.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from John C. Maxwell's Developing The Leader Within You 2.0.
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1) Although the subject was overlooked in the '90s, people have come to realize the importance of leadership and the life-altering effect it has.
2) People make all kinds of wrong assumptions when it comes to developing leadership. Everyone can be a leader, it's just a matter of who is willing to put in the effort to become one.
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Summary of Chris Voss & Tahl Raz's Never Split the Difference 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 and illogical reactions. And in hostage scenarios, "splitting the difference"...
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Summary of Bob Burg & John David Mann's The Go-Giver is an allegorical narrative that argues that individuals and businesses alike can prosper by practicing generosity. The book follows the fictional journey of an ambitious but underperforming employee, Joe, who turns to a wise and wealthy man for career advice when he realizes that he's in danger of not meeting his company's quarterly quota...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Brandon Turner's The Book on Rental Property Investing
Have you ever dreamed of making millions of dollars without having to hustle? Investing in rental property might be your future. Brandon Turner's The Book on Rental Property Investing (2015) is a must-read for anyone interested in using real estate investing to build wealth or achieve financial independence. Turner imparts practical and exciting tools, tips,...
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