Summary Station: 196 books

The book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended On It by Chriss Voss and Tahl Raz is a guide to applying techniques used in hostage negotiations to personal and business negotiations.The negotiations strategies that are used now and are being taught in business schools usually...

Grit: The Power of Passion and PerseveranceGrit is not action, but character. Grit is your most determined, patient, and hard-working self. It is completing tasks. It is unselfishly helping others.Duckworth provides personal stories of extremely gritty people, showing that they also...

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant acts as a 2015 version to update the original text covering business strategy, first...

Vishen Lakhiani is the author of “The Code of the Extraordinary Mind.” This book is classified as a self-help book and it was written for people who would like to change their life from a way of living that is on autopilot into a way of conscious living which will bring extraordinary experiences...

Tara Brach's Radical Acceptance is a work of intellectual and spiritual beauty. The book is a lesson on history and religion, an autobiography, a set of psychological case studies, and a spiritual guide all in one. Brach does a masterful job looking deeply at one corner of Buddhism, examining...

Gavin de Becker is the author of The Gift of Fear. This is a self-help book which deals with understanding how to be safe in situations where there is a potential for violence. The teachings which are conveyed in this book can be applied to a wide range of environments. The primary problem with violence...

Working with his wife, Hancock receives and documents his information first hand and compiles it into a very compact, well organised book that is a great read for persons interested in the depth of history of the people, animals, and lifestyles that existed before our time. It also includes images...

When he initially began trading, Jim Paul believed he was some type of Superman. He believed he was invincible - that whatever he touched would become gold. When he lost a million dollars, he recognized he was human like the rest of us, that he had actually just got fortunate, and that continuously...

It could be argued that The Lean Start-up, as a principle, is most likely to be a minimum of a century old. Then the concern emerges: Why has it taken so long for somebody to really conceive all these concepts, join them together and stick them in a book? The concepts discovered in this successful...

Platform Revolution by Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Choudary is a thorough take at the development of platforms as market dominators, their opposition against pipeline organizations, and best practices in establishing and overseeing platforms. Platforms interface two sorts of...

Phil KnightThe Story of The Businessman Who Created NikeBy World Watch MediaPhilip Hampson "Phil" Knight (born February 24, 1938) is an American mogul and benefactor. A local resident of Oregon, he is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., and formerly served as chairman...

Tony RobbinsUnderstanding the Life and Teachings of One Of The World’s Great Leaders Who Is Responsible For Helping Millions Of People Improve their LivesBy Dr. Ruth CarrFinancial freedom is essentially a philosophical term. No human in existence is free from finances, rather...

Robert KiyosakiUnderstanding the Life and Teachings of Robert Kiyosaki; a Successful Businessman, Motivational Speaker, and a Man Who’s Quest is to Help People Find FreedomBy Dr. Ruth CarrOne of the most difficult things to do in writing a self-help book is to realize that writing...

Monuments Men Rose Valland By Patrick Bunker Rose Valland was an ordinary French citizen whose actions made an extraordinary impact during World War 2. Rose was a member of The French Resistance, but her acts of fearless bravery made a positive effect on countries all over the...