Summaries of books about Business & Finance:
The Messy Middle
Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
Scott Belsky
The book delves into the challenges and complexities that entrepreneurs and project leaders face during the intermediate stages of their ventures, offering insights and strategies for navigating the often turbulent and uncertain period between the initial idea and the final outcome. It provides practical advice on managing teams, decision-making, and sustaining motivation through the ups and downs of the creative and business processes.
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Fascinate, Revised and Updated
How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist
Sally Hogshead
The book explores the psychology of fascination and how brands can harness it to captivate their audience, using a proprietary model to identify seven triggers that can make a product or service irresistibly appealing. It provides strategies and examples for businesses to apply these triggers in their marketing efforts to stand out in a crowded marketplace and create loyal customers.
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The Power of Nice
How to Conquer the Business World With Kindness
Linda Kaplan Thaler|Robin Koval
The book argues that kindness and niceness in business can lead to greater success than cutthroat tactics. It provides anecdotes and strategies for using compassion, empathy, and genuine friendliness as powerful tools for building relationships and achieving professional goals.
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Scaling Up Excellence
Getting to More Without Settling for Less
Robert I. Sutton|Huggy Rao
The book provides a practical framework for scaling successful practices and behaviors within organizations, emphasizing the importance of fostering a mindset of excellence as companies grow. It offers strategies for overcoming common challenges that arise during expansion, such as maintaining culture and performance standards, through real-world examples and research-backed insights.
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Collaborating with the Enemy
How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust
Adam Kahane
The book provides strategies for effectively collaborating with individuals who have differing perspectives or conflicting interests, emphasizing the importance of embracing diversity and engaging in open dialogue. It offers practical tools and approaches for navigating complex challenges by finding common ground and co-creating solutions in situations where traditional consensus-building may not be possible.
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Linked
Conquer LinkedIn. Get Your Dream Job. Own Your Future.
Omar Garriott|Jeremy Schifeling
The book provides practical strategies and tips for leveraging LinkedIn to advance one's career, including how to optimize profiles, network effectively, and search for job opportunities. It offers insights into the platform's algorithms and features, guiding readers on how to use LinkedIn to its full potential for professional growth and job hunting success.
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Winners Never Cheat
Even in Difficult Times, New and Expanded Edition
Jon M. Huntsman
The book provides ethical guidelines and personal anecdotes from the author's experience in business, emphasizing the importance of integrity and fair play. It offers advice on how to succeed without compromising one's principles, even during challenging times.
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Instagram Power
Build Your Brand and Reach More Customers with Visual Influence
Jason G. Miles|Jason Miles
The book provides strategies and tips for leveraging Instagram to enhance brand visibility and engage with a broader audience effectively. It covers content creation, marketing techniques, and the use of Instagram's features to create a powerful online presence and drive customer interaction.
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Blogging
Getting To $2,000 A Month In 90 Days
Isaac Kronenberg
The book provides a strategic approach to monetizing a blog, offering readers a step-by-step guide to increase their blogging income to $2,000 per month within a three-month timeframe. It covers topics such as content creation, audience engagement, and effective monetization techniques tailored for aspiring professional bloggers.
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The Innovator's Prescription
A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
Clayton M. Christensen|Jerome H. Grossman|Jason Hwang
The book examines the challenges facing the healthcare industry and proposes a framework for innovation based on the principles of disruptive technology. It suggests that by embracing business model innovation and more patient-centric, decentralized approaches, the industry can improve quality, accessibility, and affordability of care.
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