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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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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 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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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 Simon Sinek's Leaders Eat Last advocates for a leadership style that focuses on serving others rather than pursuing shareholder goals or personal interests. Modern trends in leadership prioritize profits and executive bonuses over creating a healthy environment for employees. Leaders who think of themselves as serving their employees like family can increase job satisfaction and engagement, which reduces stress and increases productivity...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's Barbarians at the Gate
Nothing could excite an adventurous business person more than participating in the largest leveraged buyout (LBO) in history and becoming a billionaire along the way.
In Barbarians at the Gate (1989), Bryan Burrough and John Helyar narrate the chaotic battles that ensued after news broke that food and tobacco giant RJR Nabisco was seeking an LBO as a solution...
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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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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Quint Studer's The Busy Leader's Handbook
Being a great leader starts by getting the fundamentals right and practicing the little things. In The Busy Leader's Handbook (2019), Quint Studer addresses leaders willing to make the change necessary to take their companies to the next level. He gives simple and straightforward tips about engaging employees, recreating cultures, and building a high-performance company....
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Marin Katusa's The Rise of America
Marin Katusa identifies the geopolitical and economic headwinds that we all face in The Rise of America (2021), so that we can make the best decisions for our portfolios and our lives.
The United States of America is deeply divided politically and socially, with the economy hanging on the edge of a cliff. The idea of a bleak future seems to be spreading widely in many sectors....
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Summary of Geoffrey Parker's Platform Revolution is a comprehensive look at the emergence of platforms as market dominators, their competition against pipeline businesses, and best practices in founding and managing platforms.
Platforms connect two types of users in order to exchange something of value. This is different than the traditional pipeline model of business where something of value is created by transferring it from producer to producer...
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Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point applies the logic of biological contagion to a wide range of social phenomena, such as crime waves, that function similarly to epidemics. The moment when a small-scale pattern gains exponential momentum and transforms into a widespread phenomenon is known in sociology as its Tipping Point…
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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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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain
The more information we receive daily, the more forgetful we become. We are bombarded with data, advice, and opinions, which we anxiously try to stockpile, but we often can't remember key information when we need it. In Building a Second Brain (2022), productivity expert Tiago Forte explains how fixing this problem starts with one simple step: writing things down. With the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Avery Carl's Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth
Avery Carl's Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth (2021) teaches readers how to make money by investing in STRs: short-term and vacation rental properties. Carl shares the strategies that allowed her to make hundreds of thousands of dollars from investing in short-term rentals within five years. She highlights questions that all potential investors should ask and...
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