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Summary of Strengths Based Leadership by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie | Includes Analysis   Preview:   Strengths Based Leadership by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie introduces readers to the Gallup-designed survey that identifies a person’s unique leadership strengths. Many...

Summary of Ego is the Enemy: by Ryan Holiday | Includes Analysis   Preview: Ego Is the Enemy is Ryan Holiday’s attack on the role that ego can play in the lives of most people. Holiday does not use the term “ego” in the traditional Freudian sense but rather as a synonym...

Summary of The Power of the Other by Henry Cloud | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Power of the Other by Henry Cloud is a self-help book that demonstrates the ways that people influence each other. It describes how to cultivate healthy relationships in order to get the most...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Ryan Holiday’s and Stephen Hanselman’s The Daily Stoic by Instaread   Preview:   The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman is an introduction to the practical application of Stoic philosophy in the format of a daily devotional....

This is a Summary of Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kolter’s Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the WorldA radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools, Bold unfolds in three parts. Part One focuses on the exponential technologies...

This is a Summary of Steve Case’s NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of The FutureOne of America’s most accomplished entrepreneurs—a pioneer who made the Internet part of everyday life and orchestrated the largest merger in the history of business—shares...

Summary of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: by Vishen Lakhiani | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani is a self-help book for people who want to shift from an autopilot existence to a way of life that is intentional and extraordinary....

Summary of The Field of Fight by Michael T. Flynn with Michael Ledeen | Includes Analysis   Preview:   Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and its Allies presents Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn’s assessment of where the United States...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Devil in the White City tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Erik Larsons book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.   This...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. Tim Ferriss collects the answers to his favorite questions from a tribe of inspirational doers in everything from film to physics to gain insight into how to build what you want out of life next. The tools we...

ABOUT THE BOOK I first came across John Perkins's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man a few years ago when I was living and working in Abu Dhabi, a tiny city-state which serves as the capital of a conglomerate of similar city-states—including Dubai—all collectively known as the United Arab...

This is a Summary of Draymond John and Daniel Paisner’s The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage Daymond John has been practicing the power of broke ever since he started selling his home-sewn t-shirts on...

ABOUT THE BOOK "Raw sewage" and "jail" may not be the first words that come to mind in terms of what might be found in a treatise on public school funding. Yet, these terms, along with privilege, poverty, racism, injustice, wealth, and equity/inequity, sum up the major themes of "Savage Inequalities:...

ABOUT THE BOOK Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa was an eye-opener for Jacqueline Novegratz, a young and idealistic American banker. Although only in her mid-20s when she arrived in Abidjan, the capital, in the 1980s, she had already had a successful career in international banking and was equipped...