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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Derek Sivers's Anything You Want
In Anything You Want (2011), Derek Sivers shares his own unconventional experience of being a business owner. He delivers small biographical anecdotes about how a hobby turned into a million-dollar success story. He started CD Baby, an online store, as an outlet to sell his own CD after being turned down by major distributors. He built the store from scratch and had to learn...
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Summary of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street first published in 1973 and as of 2015 is in its eleventh edition. Despite numerous market shifts and technological developments since 1973, Malkiel asserts that the investment strategy laid out in the first edition of the book holds true: the best way to earn money in the stock market is to buy and hold a diversified and balanced portfolio of index funds.
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Summary of Matthew Dixon's The Effortless Experience examines how businesses can retain old customers and gain new ones by decreasing the amount of effort consumers must expend to resolve problems. Authors Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman, and Rick DeLisi use data collected from thousands of customers to determine which practices drive customers away and which strategies cement their trust, in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies......
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jim Camp's Start with No
In Start with No (2002), Jim Camp offers tactics and methods to help you reap better results from your negotiations, thus increasing your profit. Camp pinpoints the mistakes the majority of people fall into when negotiating, and suggests the right ways to act instead. Start with No teaches you how to come out on top as a negotiator, leaving no gains on the table.
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Summary of Jon Gordon's The Power of a Positive Team explores how groups can strengthen their ability to succeed through optimism, communication, and dedicated teamwork. Author Jon Gordon details how sports teams, educational organizations, and businesses have used the power of positivity to create stronger relationships between group members, work through obstacles, and achieve long-term goals...
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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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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jeff Bezos's Invent and Wander
By staying patient and keeping his eye on the distant horizon, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has focused on his company's long-term goals and kept going despite many failures and losses. Invent and Wander (2020) is a compilation of his writings, speeches, and annual shareholder letters. Together, they give readers an insight into his life and background, and the long path he's taken...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Eliot Brown & Maureen Farrell's The Cult of We
In The Cult of We (2021), Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell detail the different forms of corruption that took hold of WeWork, the once-heralded office rental company, including reckless spending, unprofessional behavior, lack of organization, and constant changes of executives and managers and their responsibilities. The work environment was challenging, especially...
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1) Bitcoin is the newest technology to serve the purpose of money. It is an innovation that takes advantage of the digital age's technical possibilities to solve a dilemma that has long plagued humanity: how to transfer economic capital through time and space.
2) To comprehend Bitcoin, one must first understand money, and there is no better way to comprehend money than to research its purpose and history.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Reid Hoffman's Masters of Scale
In Masters of Scale (2021), Reid Hoffman, the creator of LinkedIn, delves into the unexpected methods that visionary founders and leaders use to develop their businesses. Hoffman distills the secrets underlying the most remarkable success stories of our time. He draws on compelling and revealing personal histories, including his own experience as an entrepreneur and investor....
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Donald Miller's Business Made Simple.
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1) A worthy candidate that proves to be a terrific investment through both time- and money-saving skills will likely be promoted.
2) It is crucial to master the characteristics of a value-driven professional. Knowing your value to both an organization and yourself is key for financial and personal growth.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jacob Goldstein's Money
What is money? This question is often asked and can take on an existential dimension. In Money (2020), Jacob Goldstein offers a thorough account of the birth, evolution, and use of money across the ages, from Ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, from copper coins to digital currencies. Money is essentially a made-up aspect of humanity that has very real and tangible effects. It...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Hubert Joly's The Heart of Business
Business leaders today focus on profit and perfection, and all other factors are usually set to the side. Executives and managers alike only have their own gain in sight. In The Heart of Business (2020), Hubert Joly, former CEO of Best Buy, explains that this approach is outdated and poisonous. He talks about his own experiences making his company thrive, and details the strategies...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ
If you think it takes money to make money, you're wrong. What it takes is a high financial IQ. Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ (2008) defines financial intelligence, explains its five different forms, and dives deep into each. Kiyosaki exposes misconceptions about finance and provides valuable knowledge that can jumpstart your...
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Summary of Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner's Freakonomics details the unexpected ways that moral, social, and economic incentives influence social outcomes. Incentives are factors that influence the choices an individual or group makes; a driver is incentivized to keep the speed limit, for example, by the desire to avoid getting a speeding ticket...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Colin Bryar and Bill Carr's Working Backwards.
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1) When Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, started his company, it was so small that he was able to be with his employees every step of the way. He was guiding them into following his leadership principles, monitoring every decision they had to make.
2) In 2004, when the company had grown far beyond its initial size, Robin Andrulevich from human...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Karin M. Reed & Joseph A. Allen's Suddenly Hybrid
Workplaces have changed dramatically since COVID-19 took the world by storm. In Suddenly Hybrid (2022), communications experts Karin Reed and Joseph A. Allen analyze the shift to a hybrid workplace where some people are available at the office and others are at home. Managing hybrid meetings, especially large ones, can be tricky, so they offer tips and tricks...
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Summary of Seth Godin's This is Marketing teaches readers how to promote products that are tailored for specific segments of society. Author and entrepreneur Seth Godin explains that businesses and individual marketers often make the mistake of drumming up sales by hyping plentiful but substandard wares...
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