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Get the Summary of Anand Giridharadas' Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can-except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it....
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#1 The world of sales has changed significantly in the past few decades. Buyers have more information about you, your company, and the market than ever before. Solution sales concepts aren't working as they once did, and many companies are calling us to ask how they can sell again.
#2 The winners of actual sales opportunities sell radically differently than the...
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#1 The traditional investment management approach is based on a single core belief: investors can beat the market, and superior managers will beat the market. That optimistic expectation was reasonable 50 years ago, but not today. Times have changed the markets so much in so many major ways that the premise has proven unrealistic.
#2 The difference between a winner's...
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Book Preview: #1 When it comes to snow days or rainy weekends, parents are typically frustrated. However, children are excited about the opportunity to miss school, and soon they want to move around.
#2 Rules are important in any activity, and treasure hunting is no different. Make sure that the treasure is hidden well, but not too well. The losers will pressure the winners into hiding...
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Get the Summary of Iain M. Banks's The Player of Games in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life - and...
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Get the Summary of Tim Grover's Winning in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Winning, Tim Grover shows why he is one of the world's most sought-after mindset experts. Drawing on three decades of work with elite competitors, Grover strips away the cliches and rah-rah mentality that create mediocrity and challenges you to embrace reality with single-minded intensity. The prize? Massive...
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#1 Warren Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the third wealthiest person on the planet, and his net worth is $82 billion. In 2017, he won a bet with one of his investment managers that he could outperform any professional money manager selecting a set of five or more hedge funds over a ten-year period. The winner donated a million...
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#1 The Israelite army was terrified of facing the Philistines, so they proposed a contest. The winner would win the war. The giant accepted, and the aide told King Saul that the giant had chosen him as the man for his side. Saul knew he couldn't defeat the giant, so he didn't reply.
#2 The aide informed King Saul that the soldiers were already discussing who they would...
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#1 On the evening of March 31, 1988, Carol Montecalvo reached into her dresser drawer for a pair of lightweight blue shorts, folded them neatly in half, and placed them inside her brown vinyl suitcase. She and her husband, Dan, were going on a trip to Hawaii.
#2 Carol, the winner of the company award, was planning the vacation with her husband. She believed that the...
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Get the Summary of Simon Sinek's The Infinite Game in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules...
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#1 Step Six is the step that separates the men from the boys. It requires us to stop struggling and become entirely ready to become willing. We must relax and turn to our Higher Power with confidence. We must believe that God will remove our defects.
#2 Step Six is to ask ourselves if we want to give up our defects. We must surrender our ideas of which defects stand...
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Book Preview: #1 Intellectual property is all the stuff the author created: books, stories, notes, audio, film, and potentially more. This book is first an education for the author himself, and then it is about the method he has found to communicate this information to his heirs.
#2 The Elvis Presley estate is worth over $400 million dollars as of 2017, and he is still a household...
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#1 We begin with ten stories of strategy from different aspects of life. Some of the answers may be surprising, but surprise is not the primary purpose of the examples. Our aim is to show that such situations are pervasive, and that methodical thinking about them is likely to be fruitful.
#2 The game is to imagine that you are going to receive money and play the same...
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