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The Ideal Team Player Summary
6 min read ⌚ How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues: A Leadership Fable If you know anything about Patrick Lencioni, you probably didn’t need that subtitle: of course, it’s a leadership fable, possibly one of your favorites! This one’s about “The Ideal Team Player.” Who Should Read “The Ideal Team Player”? And […]
Death by Meeting Summary
6 min read ⌚ A Leadership Fable… About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business Ready for another business fable? Well, who isn’t? Especially if it is by Patrick Lencioni, one of the masters of the genre. In “Death by Meeting” he tries to find a solution to “the most painful problem in business”: Uninspiring, boring, time-wasting […]
Silent Spring Summary
9 min read ⌚ Our Silent Spring PDF Summary examines how Rachel Carson’s famous book almost singlehandedly brought an end to the uncontrolled usage of DDT and other pesticides, and how it inspired ecologists and environmentalists worldwide to take a stand. In January 1958, Olga Owens Huckins, a worried American citizen, wrote a letter to “The […]
Alibaba’s World Summary
6 min read ⌚ How a Remarkable Chinese Company Is Changing the Face of Global Business Sure – you know everything about “Amazon” and Jeff Bezos. But, do you know who is poised to become its main competitor during the following years? You’re wrong if you’ve answered anything other than “Alibaba.” And as we’re heading for […]
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
5 min read ⌚ A Leadership Fable The best way to learn something is through a story. That’s why, upon realizing this, business writers started sharing their experiences through a new genre, the business fable. And one of the most famous among them is, certainly, Patrick Lencioni’s “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.” Who Should Read […]
Getting Unstuck Summary
6 min read ⌚ How Dead Ends Become New Paths, aka A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path Feeling stuck in life? Regardless of what you do, you can’t make any move in the right direction? Probably you’re at an impasse. And in “Getting Unstuck,” Timothy Butler has the upside for you! He thinks […]
The One Minute Manager Summary
13 min read ⌚ MicroSummary: The bestseller ‘The One Minute Manager’ is an easy-to-read book that presents and illustrates how to use three practical managerial techniques: setting goals, praising positive behaviors, and reprimanding negative ones. It also includes many behavioral studies and helps the reader understand how these practices can help improve communication and relationships in or […]
Top Management Books
12 min read ⌚ The discipline of management is “one of the greatest social innovations of modern times”. In fact, the idea of managing processes is so ubiquitous and pervasive, that Peter Drucker, “the founder of modern management,” considers managers nothing short of the present and future torchbearers of ethics and morality. You can read why […]
The Richest Man in Babylon Summary
5 min read ⌚ MicroSummary: Published first almost a century ago, “The Richest Man in Babylon” by George Samuel Clason is a collection of fables and parables, which, though set in ancient Babylon, are applicable in the modern business and financial world. The Success Secrets of The Ancients In ancient times, the city of Babylon […]