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This is the Executive Reads summary of Getting Things Done by David Allen. This time testing strategy for organizing your personal and professional projects revolutionizes your productivity. Allen's seminal work details his system for productiveness based on decades of experience. The idea is to get more done with less effort and to actually accomplish those goals that seem so daunting. In less than one hour this summary will help you recall the key ideas if you already read the book or quickly grasp the key ideas from Getting Things Done if you're considering reading it. Learn about: -...

Whether you’re considering checking out Kim Scott’s Radical Candor or you need some help recalling the key concepts, this Executive Reads summary has you covered. You'll quickly grasp the key ideas in Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.

In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore popularized the technology adoption life cycle, known elsewhere as the product adoption curve or innovation adoption curve. Contained in this useful model are terms you've heard but may not truly understand: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Between the early market segments (innovators and early adopters) and the mainstream market segments (early and late majorities) lies the chasm.

Andrew S. Grove set the stage for much of the culture and success of Silicon Valley while he led Intel Corp. He thought about the process very deeply and honed it while leading Intel. Before there were Objectives and Key-Results (OKRs), there was Andy Grove’s management style that would later give birth to them. In this summary quickly grasp the key ideas in High Output Management. In less than an hour learn the key points and decide if you should read the whole book or refresh your memory if you already have. Executive Reads values concise, accurate, and insightful information. We want ...

Whether you’re considering reading Richard Thaler’s Misbehaving or you need some help recalling the key concepts, this Executive Reads summary has you covered. In this summary quickly grasp the key ideas in Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics in less than one hour. Learn about: -The underlying problems with traditional economics models -How the pioneers of behavioral economics came together -How they formed their ideas -How these ideas can apply to your life and business Includes: -Important Concepts discussed in the book. -Summary of the chapters in the book itself. ...

Understand more about the philosophy and approach of our new Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch. In less than 45 minutes, learn, or recall, the key points. In his thoughtful book, Judge Neil Gorsuch, now a Supreme Court Justice, lays out the complicated issues surrounding suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

In The Big Short, Micheal Lewis chronicles the looming housing market crash of 2008-2009 through the eyes of a select few who saw it coming and positioned themselves to make a substantial amount of money from the folly of bankers. Follow the unapologetic analyst Steve Eisman; the value investor-savant Michael Burry; the two "event-driven" investors with no hedge fund chops; and the sleazy Grep Lippmann, who did his best to spread the idea and make money off investors wanting in and out of subprime.

In this summary, quickly grasp the key ideas in Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future in less than one hour. Writing for the New York Times for over two decades, Krugman has written an enormous amount of well researched long-form journalism on a variety of topics, from Social Security to the media around a central theme: America is headed in the wrong direction, both economically and politically.

In the current climate of racial tension and outcries for equality, why does talking about race seem so difficult? In Robin DiAngelo's best-selling book, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, she takes on this difficult topic. In less than one hour, this summary will help you recall the key ideas if you already listened to the book or quickly grasp the key ideas from White Fragility if you're considering listening to it.

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