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Summary of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: by Patrick Lencioni - Includes Analysis Preview: Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is about the reasons teams fail to…
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Summary of Super Genes by Deepak Chopra & Rudolph Tanzi - Includes Analysis
Preview: Super Genes by Deepak Chopra and Rudolph Tanzi is a scientific and spiritual overview of epigenetics…
Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson - Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
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A group of old school friends meet to catch up. They end up discussing the unexpected…
Summary of A Common Struggle by Patrick J. Kennedy and Stephen Fried - Includes Analysis Preview: A Common Struggle by Patrick Kennedy is a memoir chronicling his struggles with mental…
Red Notice by Bill Browder - Includes Analysis
Preview: Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder is a unique…
The Sixth Extinction: by Elizabeth Kolbert - Key Takeaways, Analysis & ReviewPreview The Sixth Extinction is a book by award winning journalist, Elizabeth Kolbert. In this book, the author…
Summary of Essentialism by Greg McKeown - Includes Analysis Preview: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less is a self-help book by Greg McKeown. The book outlines a minimalist approach to…
Summary of Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin - Includes Analysis Preview: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is a guide to applying leadership principles of…
Summary of The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane - Includes Analysis Preview The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane is a book in the self-help genre that instructs the…
The Sociopath Next Door: by Martha Stout - Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review Preview Sociopaths comprise an alarming four percent of the population; that is, one in every 25 people…
Summary of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - Includes Analysis
Preview: The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel about a shepherd named Santiago, an 18-year-old youth who abandons his life in…
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - A 15-minute Summary & Analysis
Preview of this Instaread: The lives of two teens, a French girl and a German…
Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas - Summary & Analysis Preview: Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas chronicles the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian-born forensic pathologist known for his seminal…
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls - Summary & Analysis Preview Jeannette Walls chronicles all the heartbreak, deprivation, humor, and love of her childhood in The Glass Castle…
The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis - Summary & Analysis Preview The Quartet is an historical account of the debates and events leading up to, during, and immediately following the…
Summary of Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton - Includes Analysis
Preview: Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton is a…
Good Profit by Charles G. Koch - Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review Preview Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World’s Most Successful Companies is a…
Summary of Originals by Adam Grant - Includes Analysis
Preview: Originals provides an insightful window into the most innovative and creative minds that society has ever known. By investigating the…
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale - Key Takeaways & Analysis Preview: The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale explains how positive thoughts and faith…
Summary of Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend - Includes Analysis
Preview: Written by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, Boundaries: When to Say Yes; How to…
Summary of The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, MD - Includes Analysis Preview: In The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing…
Summary of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins - Includes Analysis Preview: In The God Delusion, philosopher Richard Dawkins evaluates popular arguments for the existence of God. The idea that…
Summary of The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig - Includes Analysis Preview: The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham, with commentary by…
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande - Includes & Analysis
Preview The Checklist Manifesto is a non-fiction investigation of human fallibility in high-stakes environments, such as medical surgeries, airline flights…
Summary of God Help the Child by Toni Morrison - Includes Analysis Preview: God Help the Child by Toni Morrison is a dramatic novel that focuses on how adults are…
Summary of A Full Life by Jimmy Carter - Includes Analysis
Preview: As he was turning 90, Jimmy Carter decided it was a good time to write a book about…
Summary of A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler - Includes Analysis Preview: A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler is the poignant story of four generations of…
Summary of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey - Includes Analysis Preview: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is a dating advice book…
Summary of Born to Run by Christopher McDougall - Includes Analysis Preview: Born to Run is a book about the natural virtues of running, based on Christopher McDougall’s own experiences…
Summary of Finders Keepers by Stephen King - Includes Analysis
Preview: Private investigator, Bill Hodges, races to find another deranged killer in Finders Keepers, the second book in a projected…
Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin - Includes Analysis
Wednesday Martin mixes autobiography, anthropology, and satire in Primates of Park Avenue, a close-up look at the rarefied enclave…
Summary of Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner - Includes Analysis Preview: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction is a nonfiction book about the accuracy of forecasting…
Summary of The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Includes Analysis Preview: The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a philosophical treatment of Taleb’s research on highly improbable…
Summary of Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger - Includes Analysis Preview: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American…
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert is a book of motivational passages, anecdotes, and quotes meant to inspire readers to embrace creativity in whatever form is most…
Summary of Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer - Includes Analysis Preview: Into Thin Air was published in 1997 by journalist and outdoorsman Jon Krakauer. The book focuses on the…
Summary of Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson - Includes Analysis Preview: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things is a series of essays that are hysterically funny and poignant…
Summary of Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee - Includes Analysis
Preview: Jean Louise Finch tries to go home again and finds tiny Maycomb, Alabama grappling with the emerging…
Summary of High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove- Includes Analysis Preview: First published in 1983, High Output Management by Andrew Grove is a management guide based on Grove’s 15…
Summary of How Not To Die by Michael Greger, M.D. with Gene Stone - Includes Analysis
How Not to Die by Michael Greger is primarily focused on the use…