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#1 In 2007, Kleiner Perkins was approached by engineers who had named their startup after Nikola Tesla, the legendary inventor. They had partnered with a wildly successful PayPal entrepreneur who was now chairman of the board. They wanted to pitch their idea.
#2 The world must replace all gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with a fleet of zero-emissions cars, trucks, and buses...
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Get the Summary of Thomas Piketty's “A Brief History of Equality” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the...
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#1 The Fort Lauderdale Police Department has received 38 murders so far this year, which is a record-breaking number. The most ever was 52 in 1981.
#2 The police department has a rotation system for assigning cases to lead detectives. This time, partners Russo and Allen were up to handle the case from start to finish. If it wasn't solved by the group effort in the next...
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Get the Summary of Michael Easter's Scarcity Brain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and one of the world's leading experts on behavior change, shows that the problem isn't you. The problem is your scarcity mindset, left over from our ancient ancestors. They had to constantly seek and consume to survive because vital survival tools like food,...
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Get the Summary of John E. Sarno's The Mindbody Prescription in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Musculoskeletal pain disorders have reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with most doctors failing to recognize their underlying cause. In this acclaimed volume, Dr. Sarno reveals how many painful conditions- including most neck and back pain, migraine, repetitive stress injuries,...
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Book Preview: #1 Wang Zhao was a Chinese monk who, in the first spring of the twentieth century, delivered a document that would change the Chinese-speaking world forever. He had been hiding out in Japan for the past two years, carrying a hefty bounty on his head. His desire to go home eclipsed his fear of capture.
#2 The Chinese language seemed to be a major impediment to China's...
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Get the Summary of Prem Rawat's Hear Yourself in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The cacophony of modern life can be deafening, leaving us feeling frazzled and uneasy. In this warm, wise book, Prem Rawat teaches us how to turn down the noise to "hear ourselves"-to listen to the subtle song of peace that sings inside each of us. Once we learn to truly "hear ourselves" and the voice of...
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Get the Summary of Max Fisher's The Chaos Machine in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the truth is that its reach and impact run far deeper than we have understood. Building on years of international reporting, Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook,...
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#1 The buck stops with the CEO of any organization, and they are responsible for the work done by that organization. However, this does not mean that the CEO should be doing work that no one else is doing.
#2 The three focuses of a CEO are Culture, People, and Numbers. Focusing on them exclusively will clarify and inform your work at a level you've never reached before....
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Book Preview: #1 I had to deliver the calf by embryotomy, passing a wire over the neck and sawing off the head. So many of these occasions ended with the floor strewn with heads, legs, heaps of intestines.
#2 I had been trying to save the little calf's life for nearly two hours, and I was still unable to save it. The farmer's brother, who had never met my colleague, had heard great...
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#1 Sidewalks and streets in cities serve many purposes besides carrying vehicles, and city sidewalks serve many purposes besides carrying pedestrians. These uses are bound up with circulation, but are not identical with it.
#2 The public peace of cities is not kept primarily by the police. It is kept primarily by an intricate network of voluntary controls and...
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#1 I am blessed among men. I was encouraged by my daughter, Maggie, and my wife, Ellen, while writing this book.
#2 My father, Malachy McCourt, was born in Toome, County Antrim. He grew up wild, in trouble with the English, or the Irish, or both. He fought with the Old IRA and for some desperate act he wound up a fugitive with a price on his head. When I was a child,...
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Get the Summary of Mike Michalowicz's Clockwork in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If you're like most entrepreneurs, you started your company so you could be your own boss, make the money you deserve, and live life on your own terms. In reality, you're bogged down in the daily grind, constantly putting out fires, answering an endless stream of questions, and continually hunting for cash.
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Get the Summary of Warren Berger's ‘The Book of Beautiful Questions’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: When confronted with almost any demanding situation, the act of questioning can help guide us to smart decisions. By asking questions, we can analyze, learn, and move forward in the face of uncertainty. But "questionologist" Warren Berger says that the questions must be the right...
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#1 I lived in Jerusalem for several months in the early 1990s, doing research in the private libraries of some of the city's oldest families. I found a worldly man with a broad education who was deeply interested in comparative religion.
#2 Yusuf Diya was an Ottoman government official who spent much of his career training to be a diplomat. He was also elected as the...
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#1 The first role model your child has is you. You will be a major influence on your child, and they will look to you for guidance. In this section, I'll be looking at how the past can affect the present when it comes to your relationship with your child.
#2 If you are a parent, you can unpack and become familiar with your childhood, examine what happened to you, how you felt about...
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Get the Summary of Leonard Mlodinow's “Subliminal” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of “The Drunkard's Walk” and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships...
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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 Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade,...
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Get the Summary of Steven Bartlett's Happy Sexy Millionaire in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As an 18-year-old, black, broke, lonely, insecure, university drop-out, from a bankrupt family, I wrote in my diary that I wanted to be a 'Happy Sexy Millionaire' by the age of 25. By 25 I was a multi-millionaire having created a business worth over $300m dollars. Ironically, in achieving everything...