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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 Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Master negotiator Herb Cohen has been successfully negotiating everything from insurance claims to hostage releases to his own son's hair length and hundreds of other matters for over five decades. Ever since coining the term "win-win" in 1963, he has been teaching people the world over how to...
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Get the Summary of Darius Foroux's Do It Today in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Are you also tired of putting off your dreams until "tomorrow?" Guess what! Tomorrow never comes. Am I right?
I've procrastinated and put off my desire to write a book for a decade. I always came up with excuses like, "it's not the right time." Or, "I need to do more research."
But in 2015 I got tired...
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Get the Summary of Chris Miller's Chip War in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil-the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything-from missiles to microwaves, smartphones to the stock market-runs on chips....
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Book Preview: #1 There have been two main ideas about cardiovascular disease over the past 150 years: the cholesterol hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. The cholesterol hypothesis has become so dominant that it stands alone, unquestioned and unchallenged.
#2 The alternative hypothesis is that blood clots, and blood clotting, are the key players in cardiovascular disease. From...
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Get the Summary of Kindra Hall's Stories That Stick in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Stories That Stick provides a clear framework of ideals and a concise set of actions for you to take complete control of your own story, utilizing the principles behind the world's most effective business storytelling strategies.
Stories That Stick offers specific, actionable steps readers can take...
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#1 Our universe has woken up and become aware of itself. From a small blue planet, tiny conscious parts have begun gazing out into the cosmos with telescopes, and have found that everything they thought existed is merely a small part of something greater.
#2 The first step in the cosmic awakening was the formation of light and heat from the Big Bang. As our universe...
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Get the Summary of Suze Orman's The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Retirement today is more complex than ever before. It is most definitely not your parents' retirement. You will have to make decisions that weren't even part of the picture a generation ago. Without a clear-cut path to manage the money you've saved, you may feel like you're all...
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Get the Summary of Scott Trench's Set for Life in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Building wealth is always possible, even while working full-time, earning a median income, and paying off debt. By layering philosophy with practical knowledge, Set for Life gives people in their twenties and thirties an action plan to conquer their financial goals early in life. With more than 140,000 copies...
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#1 If you want to be fast after 50, you must be prepared to consider many matters. You must be an athlete all your life, and competition is a big part of who you are. If you have determination, you can do it.
#2 The choices you make every day are important for your health. They are not just about training, but also about lifestyle decisions, big or small. All are important.
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Get the Summary of Larry Kendall's Ninja Selling in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Ninja Selling, author Larry Kendall transforms the way readers think about selling. He points out the problems with traditional selling methods and instead offers a science-based selling system that gives predictable results regardless of personality type. Ninja Selling teaches readers how to shift...
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Get the Summary of Michael Lewis's Flash Boys in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post—financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they...
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Get the Summary of Patrick M. Lencioni's The Motive in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In what may be his edgiest page-turner to date, Lencioni thrusts his readers into a day-long conversation between rival CEOs. Shay Davis is the CEO of Golden Gate Alarm, who, after just a year in his role, is beginning to worry about his job and is desperate to figure out how to turn things around....
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#1 Sam Zemurray, the man who created the banana, was born in 1877 in the region of western Russia known as Bessarabia. He grew up on a wheat farm in a flat country ringed by hills. He went to America in 1892 to establish himself and send for his family.
#2 Sam was extremely ambitious, and he knew exactly how to get ahead. He believed in staying close to the action, and...
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#1 The biggest flaw of investing time in self-esteem and self-confidence is that they do not provide a means to reorient your life toward justice and compassion. Self-esteem and self-confidence are not scalable, and they are ultimately doomed to fail if they are fueled by ego and external factors.
#2 Self-acceptance is often used as a synonym for acquiescence. We accept...
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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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Book Preview: #1 The gap is the space between where you are and where you want to be. Companies that close the gaps in business best, win.
#2 We all have gaps in life, between where we are and where we want to be. These gaps are human nature. Without them, we would have no hopes, dreams, or aspirations. But while there's nothing more human than dreaming of leaping a gap, there are...
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Get the Summary of James Kerr's Legacy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In today's volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment, personal leadership has never been more relevant and Legacy goes to the heart of how great leaders - and we are all leaders - 'reboot' and reframe their future.
It is a truly life-defining read that addresses the big questions - values, vision,...
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#1 I had flown to Madrid to meet with Spain's top anti-corruption prosecutor, José Grinda. I'd come to share evidence about how dirty money was used to purchase luxury properties along Spain's Costa del Sol.
#2 I was arrested in Madrid by Spanish police on an Interpol arrest warrant issued by the Russians. I was taken to the police station, and the managers there tried...
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#1 We all get distracted from time to time. We must recognize the signs that we are becoming distracted, and then take action to fix it. We must be honest and admit that we had three distractions today, not just one.
#2 We all become distracted at some point. We become distracted from our goals and greater purposes by our temporary circumstances. We can be distracted...
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