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The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni | Includes Analysis Preview: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni is a practical guide to organizational health. Organizational health is a characteristic of many successful businesses...

Summary of The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz | Includes Analysis   Preview: Ben Horowitz is the author and narrative of this bestselling book. Ben describes being the grandchild of Communist grandparents and the child of a father who was indoctrinated in Communist...

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 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell | Includes Analysis   Preview: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (2007) is a thorough look at the lessons in leadership the author, John Maxwell, has learned in his years as a pastor, leadership mentor, and...

Summary of The Devil in the White City: by Erik Larson | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Devil in the White City is a book by Erik Larson that takes a close look at The World’s Columbian Exposition, the world’s fair that Chicago hosted in 1893, held in celebration of the...

Summary of Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff | Includes Analysis   Preview: A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award, Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff tells the story of Lancelot and Mathilde Satterwhite, a married couple. The first section of the book is told mostly...

Circling the Sun: by Paula McLain | Summary & Analysis   Preview: Circling the Sun is a novelized account of the life of Beryl Markham written by Paula McLain. Beryl broke all the rules for a proper young lady as she grew up in colonial Kenya, then broke ground for women everywhere,...

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...

This is an Instaread Summary of Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis With Instaread Summaries, you can get the summary of a book in 30 minutes or less. We read every chapter, summarize and analyze it for your convenience.  Below is a preview of the earlier sections of...

Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin | Includes Analysis   Preview: Wednesday Martin mixes autobiography, anthropology, and satire in Primates of Park Avenue, a close-up look at the rarefied enclave of New York City’s Upper East Side, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods...

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls | Summary & Analysis Preview: Jeannette Walls chronicles all the heartbreak, deprivation, humor, and love of her childhood in The Glass Castle, a memoir of growing up dirt-poor on a cross-country odyssey with her charismatic, but alcoholic,...

Summary of Sprint by Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz | Includes Analysis   Preview: A sprint is a lightning-speed process to isolate a company’s most pressing problem and find its solution within a week. This speedy process was developed by author Jake Knapp and...

Summary of The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin | Includes Analysis Preview: The Swans of Fifth Avenue is a novel about the experiences of American author Truman Capote and the group of wealthy women he called his swans, particularly Babe Paley. The story is set against the...

Summary of The Black Count by Tom Reiss | Includes Analysis    Preview: The Black Count is the Pulitzer Prize winning biography written by author Tom Reiss. The book traces the life of Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, also known as Alexandre Dumas, a black...