Summaries of books about Business & Finance:
The Creator's Code
The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
Amy Wilkinson
The book distills six key skills that successful entrepreneurs use to turn ideas into enterprises, based on interviews with over 200 high-impact creators. These skills include finding the gap, driving for daylight, failing wisely, networking minds, gifting small goods, and learning to pivot when necessary.
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The Trust Edge
How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relati
David Horsager
The book presents the idea that trust is a fundamental element for effective leadership, arguing that it leads to faster results, stronger relationships, and improved financial outcomes. It provides readers with eight pillars of trustworthiness and practical strategies to build and maintain trust within organizations and teams.
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The Ten Faces of Innovation
IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
Tom Kelley|Jonathan Littman
The book outlines ten unique strategies for fostering innovation and creativity within organizations, each characterized as a different "persona" that individuals can adopt to overcome naysayers and bring fresh ideas to fruition. It provides insights and real-world examples from the design firm IDEO to illustrate how embracing these roles can help teams collaborate effectively and push past barriers to innovation.
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Works Well with Others
An Outsider's Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting Up, Handling Jerks, and Other Crucial Skills in Business That No One Ever Teaches You
Ross McCammon
The book offers humorous and practical advice on navigating the unwritten rules of professional conduct, from making a good first impression to dealing with difficult colleagues. It provides insights on communication, etiquette, and the subtle arts of networking and office politics, aimed at helping readers succeed in the modern workplace.
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The Art of Leadership
Small Things, Done Well
Michael Lopp
The book offers practical advice on leadership through a collection of essays that emphasize the importance of mastering small, everyday actions to build trust and lead effectively. It provides insights into various aspects of leadership, from decision-making and managing time to nurturing teams and driving innovation.
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Hustle
The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum
Neil Patel|Patrick Vlaskovits|Jonas Koffler
The book provides a guide on how to break free from the conventional paths to success and create one's own by hustling smartly, using a mix of personal stories, practical strategies, and psychology. It emphasizes the importance of creating money, meaning, and momentum in life through unconventional means, leveraging one's unique strengths and the power of a strong work ethic.
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Product-Led Onboarding
How to Turn New Users Into Lifelong Customers
Ramli John
The book provides a strategic framework and actionable insights for improving user onboarding experiences, with the goal of converting new users into long-term customers. It emphasizes the importance of a product-led approach, where the product itself is the main driver of user engagement, retention, and growth.
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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
John Wood
The book chronicles the journey of a former Microsoft executive who left his lucrative career to found Room to Read, a nonprofit organization aimed at promoting education across developing countries. It details his challenges and successes in building libraries and schools, and his mission to provide educational opportunities to underprivileged children around the globe.
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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Douglas Rushkoff
The book critiques the current economic system that prioritizes constant growth and profit at the expense of human welfare and sustainability. It argues for a shift towards more equitable and sustainable models of commerce that leverage digital technology to benefit society as a whole rather than just a select few.
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Win at All Costs
Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception
Matt Hart
The book investigates the controversial practices within Nike's elite running program, the Oregon Project, exposing a win-at-all-costs culture that included the use of performance-enhancing drugs and unethical coaching tactics. It delves into the experiences of athletes and the role of coach Alberto Salazar in fostering an environment of intense pressure and moral ambiguity.
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