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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 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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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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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 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 James Rickards's The New Great Depression.
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1) SARS-CoV-2 is a deadly virus more commonly known as coronavirus. The resulting disease from the virus is called Covid-19. Some infections produce no symptoms at all, while others cause lung inflammation, which leads to difficulty breathing and a myriad of other potential symptoms and complications.
2) The pandemic began in Wuhan, China. Like...
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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 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 David M. Greene's Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat
In Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat (2019), David M. Greene meticulously explains how applying the BRRRR method in real estate investing can lead to exceptional riches, unlike traditional real estate investing, which is slow, inefficient, and not as profitable. Greene details each part of the five-step process, and shares his own experience in accumulating...
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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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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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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 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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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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