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Get the Summary of Carmine Gallo's The Bezos Blueprint in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Bezos Blueprint" delves into the communication strategies that propelled Amazon's success, focusing on Jeff Bezos's ban on PowerPoint in favor of written narratives. The book explores Bezos's writing skills, particularly in his shareholder letters, and how his communication methods have influenced leaders and entrepreneurs......
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Book Preview: #1 When Brian began his career as a manager, he was instantly fascinated by everything about it. He loved planning and budgeting, counseling and performance appraisals, and he felt like he had been created to manage.
#2 When a headhunter friend of Kathryn's called and asked if she would be interested in interviewing for the CEO position at a small exercise equipment...
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#1 Exploratory analysis is what you do to understand the data and figure out what might be noteworthy or interesting to highlight to others. When you are at the point of communicating your analysis to your audience, you should be in the explanatory space, meaning you have a specific thing you want to explain.
#2 When it comes to explanatory analysis, you must first...
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Book Preview: #1 All-natural pet treats are sold by Aubrey's Natural Meats. The company is unique by design, as there are no strong competitors at the local, regional, or even state level.
#2 The end consumer is the white-tablecloth restaurant and the gourmet or health-oriented retailer.
#3 Develop a website by the third quarter of 2004 and do e-commerce shipping everywhere. create...
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Book Preview: #1 The Time-Blocking Mindset is one that aims for true productivity. It is about working smart, not hard. You can use Time-Blocking to work smarter and harder, or you can use it to work smarter.
#2 Focus is a commodity in our day and age. It is something we need to learn to manage. When we feel we are being unproductive, we should figure out how we can manage our time...
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Book Preview: #1 The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange. Unless American companies invest in the difficult task of creating new things, they will fail in the future.
#2 The future should be available to everyone, not just students in Silicon Valley.
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Book Preview: #1 The airlines have begun selling line-cutting privileges as an à la carte perk. For $39, United Airlines will sell you priority boarding for your flight from Denver to Boston, along with the right to cut in line at the security checkpoint.
#2 The Empire State Building offers a fast track to the top for $45 per person. The Express Pass allows you to skip the lines...
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Book Preview: #1 The world is full of narcissists. People think what they're doing is important, but researchers and helping professionals are finding that the incidence of narcissistic personality disorder has more than doubled in the last ten years.
#2 The term narcissism is used to describe a pattern of grandiosity, a lack of empathy, and a constant need for admiration. However,...
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#1 All pies start out as worthless ideas. They are essentially worthless in the beginning. If you can produce an idea for less than people are willing to pay for it, then you have built value.
#2 The value of the pie is based on the amount of income it is able to generate. The future is uncertain, so the value of a pie can vary dramatically depending on who is looking...
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Book Preview: If you ever considered quitting your job and starting your own small company, would you know how to do it?
In “Company of One” (2019), Paul Jarvis collects his expertise and the experiences of dozens of small companies to provide a simple, straightforward guide to building your own company of one. From developing your idea, to collecting loyal customers and finding...
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Get the Summary of Katty Kay & Claire Shipman's The Confidence Code in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Confidence Code" by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman explores the concept of confidence, particularly among women, across various professional and personal contexts. The authors delve into the experiences of female athletes, military personnel, and high-profile leaders like Hillary Clinton, Elaine Chao, and Christine...
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Book Preview:#1 Meritocracy is a system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement.
#2 Meritocracy is a social system based on individual ability and achievement. It has many advantages, but it's also been called a neoliberal meritocracy.
#3 The discourse of neoliberal meritocracy is not just found in the West but has also expanded to other countries such...
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Book Preview: #1 The Slippery Slope of Silencings is the phenomenon where people of both genders pop up at events to hold forth on irrelevant things and conspiracy theories, but the out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered.
#2 The presumption that women are unnecessary is a war that every woman faces every day. It is a belief...
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#1 When you see people come up with great business or life ideas, you may chalk it up to luck or natural creativity, but there is a process behind ideas that are beneficial to yourself and society. The first step in the process is to notice problems.
#2 If you're looking to focus on your career, centralize your problems around your career and industry. If you're looking...
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Get the Summary of Barbara Stanny's Secrets of Six-Figure Women in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Secrets of Six Figure Woman: Surprising Strategies of the Successful High Earners will be a ground breaking book for high earners who want to ensure their wealth, enhance their success, and learn from others who are in the same boat. It will also offer inspiration, guidance, and motivation...
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Get the Summary of Chris Bailey's Hyperfocus in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Our attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today. Many of us recognize that our brains struggle to multitask. Despite this, we feel compelled to do so anyway while we fill each moment of our lives to the brim with mindless distraction. Hyperfocus provides profound insights into how you can best...
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Get the Summary of Hubert Joly's The Heart of Business in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In The Heart of Business, Joly shares the philosophy behind the resurgence of Best Buy: pursue a noble purpose, put people at the center of the business, create an environment where every employee can blossom, and treat profit as an outcome, not the goal.
This approach is easy to understand, but...
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Get the Summary of Ethan M. Rasiel's The McKinsey Way in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It's been called "a breeding ground for gurus." McKinsey & Company is the gold-standard consulting firm whose alumni include titans such as "In Search of Excellence" author Tom Peters, Harvey Golub of American Express, and Japan's Kenichi Ohmae.
When Fortune 100 corporations are stymied, it's the...
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Get the Summary of Jane McGonigal's Imaginable in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disasters, a new war-events we might have called "unimaginable" or "unthinkable" in the past are now reality. Today it feels more challenging than ever to feel unafraid, hopeful, and equipped to face the future with optimism. How do we map out our lives...
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Get the Summary of Cal Newport's A World Without Email in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it's hard to imagine alternatives. But they do exist. Drawing on years of investigative reporting, author and computer science professor Cal Newport makes the case that our current approach to work is broken, then lays out a series of principles...
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