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Get the Summary of Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson's No-Drama Discipline in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The pioneering experts behind the bestselling The Whole-Brain Child, Tina Payne Bryson and Daniel J. Siegel, the New York Times bestselling author of Brainstorm, now explore the ultimate child-raising challenge: discipline. Highlighting the fascinating link between a child's...
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Get the Summary of Alex Soojung-Kim Pang's Rest in 20 minutes.
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Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done-but they are never done. Looking at different forms of rest, from sleep to vacation, Silicon Valley futurist and business consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang dispels the myth that the harder we work the better the outcome....
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Get the Summary of Glennon Doyle Melton's Carry On, Warrior in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Glennon Doyle's hilarious and poignant reflections on our universal (yet often secret) experiences have inspired a social movement by reminding women that they're not alone. In Carry On, Warrior, she shares her personal story in moving, refreshing, and laugh-out-loud new essays and some of the best-loved material from...
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Get the Summary of Carla Naumburg's How to Stop Losing Your Sht with Your Kids in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Carla Naumburg's book, "How to Stop Losing Your Sht with Your Kids," addresses the common issue of parental outbursts, or FARTs (Feelings, Automatic, Reactive, Toxic), which are often unconscious and disproportionate reactions to triggers. These outbursts can damage the parent-child relationship, leading...
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#1 To make the most of your mental clarity, schedule a time to check your email when you're not at your peak. Your projects and tasks should take precedence when you're most focused. By making this one simple change and properly utilizing your prime time, you can save yourself countless hours each week.
#2 You should have a system for organizing essential and critical...
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#1 There are only three things that humans can do: think, feel, and act. We are constantly thinking, feeling, and acting, and we must learn how to direct and control our responses to those who push our buttons.
#2 There are four main screwball feelings: excessive anxiety, anger/defensiveness, depression/burnout, and guilt. If you get excessively anxious, you will not...
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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 Jon Gordon's The Power of a Positive Team in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices that Make Great Teams Great by Jon Gordon: Conversation Starters Positivity coach Jon Gordon talks to many of the most outstanding teams in history and reveals how good teamwork happens and how this is related to the team's success....
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Get the Summary of John P. Kotter's Leading Change in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: John Kotter's now-legendary eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe. By outlining the process every organization must go through to achieve its goals, and by identifying where and how even top performers derail...
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Get the Summary of David McRaney's How Minds Change in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to resolute? Can widespread social change only take place when a generation dies out? From one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, HOW MINDS CHANGE is a book about the...
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#1 Product-market fit is the process of determining if a product is well-suited for its market. It is one of the most important Lean Startup principles, and this playbook will teach you how to achieve it.
#2 Product-market fit is when your product creates significant customer value. It is achieved when your product meets real customer needs and does so in a way that...
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#1 The three capabilities of digital technologies are ubiquitous data, unlimited connectivity, and massive processing power. They are changing how we live and how we do business. No matter how beloved or essential their existing products, businesses must constantly enhance their customer value propositions to capitalize on the capabilities of digital technologies.
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#1 Tribes are the basic building block of any large human effort, including earning a living. They influence more than teams, entire companies, and even superstar CEOs. They decide whether the new leader will flourish or get taken out.
#2 The Tribal Leader is the person who upgrades the tribe, or the group of people, as the tribe embraces the leader. The leader and the...
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#1 Leadership is essential because it makes a significant difference in people's levels of engagement, commitment, and performance. Developing your leadership abilities will help you improve the way people around you feel about their workplace and promote more productive organizations.
#2 There are people who believe that not everyone has the potential to lead, and that...
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#1 We want to thank the families who have so willingly shared their stories and lives with us. We also thank our colleagues who have shared their insights and wisdom with us and who have greatly enriched our work.
#2 The traditional approach to diagnosing and treating at-risk children is piecemeal and disconnected. Too often, parents and experts look at behavioral disorders...
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#1 You must be prepared to identify opportunities, have the confidence to make quick decisions, and learn from your mistakes so you can aim for better results in the future. You can be a success, but only if you constantly are creating your own opportunities.
#2 I met Tyler Perry, an actor and director, at the gym. I was a real estate agent, and I wanted to sell him...
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#1 The mind-body problem is not just a local problem, having to do with the relation between mind, brain, and behavior in living animal organisms, but that it invades our understanding of the entire cosmos and its history.
#2 The argument from the failure of psychophysical reductionism is a philosophical one. It argues that because the physical sciences cannot provide...
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#1 The power of ideas will build the world of tomorrow. But ideas in the absence of eloquence will fall on deaf ears.
#2 Charlie Mars, an engineer at NASA, was profoundly inspired by the words of one man: John F. Kennedy. He reduced the number of NASA's aspirations to one, made it concrete, and connected employees' day-to-day work with concrete objectives.
#3 The four...
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#1 The digital revolution has brought two critical forces to the world of business: uncertainty and continuous change. Companies that apply the power of continuous change to their products, services, and businesses as a whole are able to adapt quickly to uncertainty.
#2 The team at Facebook could have simply hired more reviewers to deal with the deluge of inappropriate...
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#1 The good news is that employee engagement, empowerment, and organizational agility can flourish when the fundamental relationship between leaders and followers, helpers and clients, and providers and customers becomes more personal and cooperative. The bad news is that continued deception, scandals, high turnover of disengaged talent, safety and quality problems, and...
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