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Summary of Jessica Bennett's Feminist Fight Club is a guide for women to counteract behaviors and trends in the workplace that disproportionately damage their ability to succeed. Bennett's outlook on feminism was shaped early in her career by regular meetings with other women to discuss obstacles and share their successes in what they called a "feminist fight club."
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's Barbarians at the Gate
Nothing could excite an adventurous business person more than participating in the largest leveraged buyout (LBO) in history and becoming a billionaire along the way.
In Barbarians at the Gate (1989), Bryan Burrough and John Helyar narrate the chaotic battles that ensued after news broke that food and tobacco giant RJR Nabisco was seeking an LBO as a solution...
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Summary of Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There generalizes from his personal experience as a business consultant to explain how successful leaders can diagnose and correct interpersonal problems that are holding them back at work. Using data-driven analysis and simple behavioral modification techniques, senior executives and other leaders can improve their relationships with employees by adopting an attitude of humility and...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Indra Nooyi's My Life in Full
Indra Nooyi was the first female chief executive officer of PepsiCo, the multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation worth more than $78 billion. Yet, the most incredible thing Nooyi will say she's accomplished was balancing her work life with her equally impressive family life.
In Nooyi's memoir My Life in Full, she explains her incredible journey from growing up in India...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Daisy Dowling's Two-Career Families
A two-career family offers many benefits, but it can be difficult to thrive at both working and parenting. If you and your partner are living this lifestyle, or considering it, Daisy Dowling's Two-Career Families (2022) offers ideas and strategies to guide you on your long-term path as working parents. You'll discover how to communicate about your objectives and beliefs, think...
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Summary of Gene Kim's The Phoenix Project is a business allegory about how a fictional company becomes profitable after a crisis-driven change in its information technology management style.
Bill Palmer is promoted to vice president of IT at Parts Unlimited, an automotive parts manufacturer and retailer, at a time when it is struggling financially and trying to launch a new, innovative project…
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Summary of Simon Sinek's Leaders Eat Last advocates for a leadership style that focuses on serving others rather than pursuing shareholder goals or personal interests. Modern trends in leadership prioritize profits and executive bonuses over creating a healthy environment for employees. Leaders who think of themselves as serving their employees like family can increase job satisfaction and engagement, which reduces stress and increases productivity...
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Summary of Mohamed A. El Erian's The Only Game in Town is a discussion of the role of central banks in confronting the current financial and economic dangers facing the world. Following the financial collapse of 2008, central banks pursued aggressive and innovative policies in an effort to stabilize the world economy. Policy makers have failed to enact the measures necessary to ensure growth, and so central banks have had to continue to innovate and...
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Summary of Larry Olmsted's Real Food/Fake Food is an investigative overview of the food industry's often intentional efforts to mislead consumers about the origin and identity of the products that they eat. Author Larry Olmsted highlights the most outrageous examples of food frauds perpetrated upon the American people and offers recommendations for ways that consumers can reclaim their grocery bags and fill their dinner plates with foods they can...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jack D. Schwager's Unknown Market Wizards
Unknown Market Wizards (2020) is a continuation of the Market Wizards series that trader Jack D. Schwager started in 1989. This time, instead of talking to famed traders, Schwager set out to see if he could find traders who are little known even though they have a long record of success. To his amazement, he found not one but eleven with great track records. In Unknown...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Brian Tracy's No Excuses.
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1) Before seeking success, you must know yourself and what your ideal future looks like. Define your own idea of what success is.
2) Success is not about luck. It can be predicted and achieved through actions. Many successful people started out poor. The basic principle is that nature does not play favorites. You reap what you sow, so putting in the hard work will...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Teresa Torres's Continuous Discovery Habits
Conceiving, designing, creating, and delivering a product is a difficult process that generates huge pressure and requires a balance between client and business needs. Teresa Torres's Continuous Discovery Habits (2021) lays out the basic elements of an effective and sustainable product discovery approach. She details how teams of managers, designers, and engineers...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from MJ DeMarco's Unscripted
Tired of being lulled into a mediocre existence by mindless video games, rejuvenating weekends, and a pitiful income from a soul-suffocating job? Welcome to the Scripted club, where membership is neither perceptible nor consensual.
In Unscripted (2017), MJ DeMarco reveals how we've been culturally constructed for slavery since we were old enough to sit patiently in a classroom, inadvertently...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Tiffany Aliche's Get Good with Money.
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1) Ten financial areas in your life need to be worked on in order to achieve financial wholeness, giving you a strong foundation that will provide you with benefits and richness in life.
2) There are ten steps to becoming financially whole. The first five are building a budget, planning savings, managing debt, getting a high credit score, and increasing...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Julia Galef's The Scout Mindset.
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1) Directionally motivated reasoning, also known as motivated reasoning, is an aspect of human psychology where our unconscious motives direct us to certain conclusions. It is not objective, and instead involves us framing information to fit whatever conclusions we have already made.
2) One common example of motivated reasoning is how we use news stories...
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In December of 1991, Steve Eisman was working for Oppenheimer and Co. as an analyst and became known for his knack for ignoring consensus, an analysis of a stock's future sales and earnings.
In the early 1990s, the Salomon Brothers trading floor began a whole new bond market by packaging mortgages into bonds. In this way, they began to tap the unused equity many people had in their homes, driving the interest rates of mortgages so low that even those...
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Summary of Robert Cialdini's Pre-suasion is a research-driven examination of the ways that framing a persuasive argument can influence its effectiveness. Extensive research finds that certain ways of setting up a persuasion can be more effective than a well-planned persuasive argument on its own.
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Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point applies the logic of biological contagion to a wide range of social phenomena, such as crime waves, that function similarly to epidemics. The moment when a small-scale pattern gains exponential momentum and transforms into a widespread phenomenon is known in sociology as its Tipping Point…
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