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Get the Summary of John C. Maxwell's The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and for the first time, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach...
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Get the Summary Gene Kim's ‘The Unicorn Project’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In, ‘The Unicorn Project’, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage. She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless and uncaring bureaucracy...
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Get the Summary of Mary L. Trump's The Reckoning in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Mary L. Trump is uniquely positioned to answer these difficult questions. She holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology specializing in trauma, has herself been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and happens to be Donald J. Trump's only niece. In The Reckoning, she applies her unique expertise to...
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Get the Summary of 50 Cent and Robert Greene's The 50th Law in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power, to write a "bible" for success in life and work, based on a single principle: fear nothing.
With intimate stories from 50 Cent's life on...
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Get the Summary of 50-Cent's Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In his early twenties Curtis Jackson, known as 50-Cent rose to the heights of fame and power in the cutthroat music business. A decade ago, the multi-platinum selling rap artist decided to pivot. His ability to adapt to change was demonstrated when he became the executive producer and star...
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Get the Summary of 99U and Jocelyn K. Glei's Manage Your Day-to-Day in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Are you over-extended, over-distracted, and overwhelmed? Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven't accomplished the most important things on your agenda when you leave the office?
The world has changed and the way we work has to change, too. With wisdom...
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Get the Summary of Aakar Patel's Price of the Modi Years in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Columnist, author and political commentator, Aakar Patel has long been a close observer of the political scenario. In Price of the Modi Years, he seeks to explain the data and facts on India's performance under Narendra Modi.
Modi's predecessor as prime minister, Manmohan Singh, had once said...
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Get the Summary of Aaron Ross & Jason Lemkin's from Impossible to Inevitable in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Why are you struggling to grow your business, when everyone else seems to be crushing their goals? If you needed to triple revenue within the next three years, would you know exactly how to do it? Doubling the size of your business, tripling it, even growing ten times larger...
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Get the Summary of Abe Streep's Brothers on Three in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: March 11, 2017, was a night to remember, in front of the hopeful eyes of thousands of friends, family members, and fans, the Arlee Warriors would finally bring the high school basketball state championship title home to the Flathead Indian Reservation. The game would become the stuff of legend, with...
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Get the Summary of Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo's Poor Economics in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around...
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Get the Summary of Abhijit V. Banerjee's Good Economics for Hard Times in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it.
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Get the Summary of Adam Atler's Irresistible in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction-an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average of three hours...
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Get the Summary of Adam Coffey's ‘The Private Equity Playbook’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: For most people, private equity is a complete mystery, and most media coverage of the topic is, unfortunately, negative. Yet, there is tremendous opportunity for individuals, who partner with private equity firms to generate outsized returns and create life-changing, generational wealth....
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Get the Summary of Adam Fisher's Valley of Genius in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told By the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) (2018) is an account of how a region of California became the central hub for technological innovation in the latter half of the twentieth century. Journalist and author Adam Fisher...
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Get the Summary of Adam Grant's Give and Take in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But today, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. It turns out that at work, most people operate as either takers, matchers, or givers. Whereas takers strive to get as much...
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Get the Summary of Adam Grant's Think Again in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions...
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Get the Summary of Adam Higginbotham's Midnight in Chernobyl in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the...
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Get the Summary of Adam Kahane's Facilitating Breakthrough in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: This book describes a new approach: transformative facilitation. It doesn't choose either the bossy vertical or the collegial horizontal approach: it cycles back and forth between them. Rather than forcing or cajoling, the facilitator removes the obstacles that stand in the way of people contributing...
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Get the Summary of Adam Schiff's Midnight in Washington in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trump's Russia and Ukraine-related abuses of...
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Get the Summary of Adam Serwer's The Cruelty Is the Point in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Like many of us, Adam Serwer didn't know that Donald Trump would win the 2016 election. But, over the four years that followed, the Atlantic staff writer became one of our most astute analysts of the Trump presidency and the volatile powers it harnessed. The shock that greeted Trump's victory,...
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