Smart Reading book summaries
Reading is becoming a luxury available to very few. At the same time, we are losing the opportunity to gain ideas for business development and are learning in the most expensive and longest way — by making mistakes. We came up with a solution! Summaries are texts that present the key ideas of each book in condensed form. We do not simply shorten the text; we analyze it and gather all the “essence” the author is trying to convey to the reader.
Contents:
Allen Carr - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
Brian Metzler - Natural Running. The Simple Path to Injury-Free Running
James Fowler - Connected. How the People We Have Never Seen Affect Us
Jon Kabat-Zinn - Full Catastrophe Living
David Perlmutter - Grain Brain. What Carbohydrates Do to Health, Thinking, and Memory
Dan Buettner - The Blue Zones. Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest
Colin Campbell - The China Study
Ray Kurzweil - Transcend. Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
S. J. Scott - The Most Productive Morning
Tom Rath - Eat Move Sleep. How Daily Choices Affect Health and Longevity
Hiromi Shinya - The Book About the Harm of Healthy Eating, or How to Live to 100 Without Illness
Henry Ford - My Life and Work
Howard Schultz - Onward. How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Jack Welch - Jack. Straight from the Gut
Richard Branson - Losing My Virginity. How I Built a Business Doing It My Way and Having Fun Along the Way
Tony Hsieh - Delivering Happiness
Barbara Oakley - A Mind for Numbers. How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If Algebra Scared You)
Brian Tracy - Maximum Achievement
Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt - The Power of Focus
John Miller - QBQ! The Question Behind the Question. How Simple Questions Can Greatly Change Your Work and Life
Josh Kaufman - The Personal MBA. Self-Education at 100%
Deepak Chopra - Super Brain. How to Use the Brain to Achieve Health, Happiness, Success, and Spiritual Growth
David Allen - Getting Things Done. The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Randall - Dreamland. Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep
Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence. Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Sieberg - The Digital Diet. How to Beat Gadget and Technology Addiction
Itzhak Pintosevich - Act! 10 Commandments of Success
Kelly McGonigal - The Willpower Instinct. How to Develop and Strengthen It
Kerry Patterson - Crucial Accountability. What to Do About Broken Expectations
Lucy Jo Palladino - Find Your Focus. How to Stay Effective in the Age of Distracted Thinking
Mike Song, Vicki Halsey and Tim Burress - The Hamster Revolution. How to Meet Less and Get More Done
Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
Natalya Grace - The Laws of Grace
Radislav Gandapas - Kama Sutra for the Speaker. 10 Chapters on How to Get and Give Maximum Pleasure from Public Speaking
Richard Koch - The 80/20 Principle
Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon Lechter - Rich Dad Poor Dad. What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Robert Pozen - Extreme Productivity
Robin Sharma - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
S. J. Scott - A New Look at the To-Do List: How to Get Done What Matters Most
S. J. Scott Scott - Inbox Zero. Proven Methods of Email Management
Steven Johnson - Where Good Ideas Come From
Stephen Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey - The 8th Habit. From Effectiveness to Greatness
Steven Levitt - Think Like a Freak. The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
Sam Harris - Lying
Tal Ben-Shahar - Happier
Thomas Stanley, William Danko - The Millionaire Next Door
Tony Robbins - Money. Master the Game. 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit. Why We Live and Work the Way We Do
Edward de Bono - Six Thinking Hats
Harry Beckwith - Selling the Invisible. A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
Janelle Barlow - A Complaint Is a Gift. Customer Feedback as a Marketing Strategy Tool
Jay Conrad Levinson - Guerrilla Marketing. Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business
Jack Trout - Positioning. The Battle for Your Mind
Jim Lecinski - Winning the Zero Moment of Truth
Carl Sewell - Customers for Life
Clayton Christensen - The Innovator's Dilemma. How New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Seth Godin - Purple Cow. Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable!.epub
Andy Sernovitz - Word of Mouth Marketing. How Smart Companies Get People Talking
Frederic Laloux - Reinventing Organizations
Alexander Osterwalder - Business Model Generation
Alexander Prokhorov - The Russian Management Model
Atul Gawande - The Checklist Manifesto. How to Avoid Stupid Mistakes Leading to Fatal Consequences
Gavin Kennedy - Everything Is Negotiable! How to Get the Best Deal Every Time
Jeffrey Liker - The Toyota Way. 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Jim Benson, Tonianne DeMaria Barry - Personal Kanban. Mapping Work | Navigating Life
Jim Collins - Good to Great
Dimitri Maex, Paul Brown - Key Performance Indicators. How to Make More Money Using the Data You Already Have
Douglas Hubbard - How to Measure Anything. Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
Daniel Pink - Drive. The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Ichak Adizes - The Ideal Executive. Why You Cannot Be One and What to Do About It
Ichak Adizes - Managing Corporate Lifecycles. How to Diagnose and Treat Management Problems
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz - Great People Decisions. Why They Matter So Much, Why They Are So Hard, and How You Can Master Them
Michael Porter - Competition
Michael Raynor - The Three Rules. How Exceptional Companies Think
Michael Watkins - The First 90 Days. Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Michael Hammer, James Champy - Reengineering the Corporation. A Manifesto for Business Revolution
Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point. How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Mark Gerzon - Leading Through Conflict. How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities
Meredith Belbin - Management Teams. Why They Succeed or Fail
Nassim Taleb - Antifragile. Things That Gain from Disorder
Patrick Lencioni - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. A Leadership Fable
Peter Drucker - The Effective Executive
Peter Thiel and Blake Masters - Zero to One. Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Ricardo Semler - Maverick. The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
Robin Sharma - The Leader Who Had No Title
Hani Abujudeh - Quality and Safety in Radiology
W. Chan Kim - Blue Ocean Strategy. How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Ed Michaels - The War for Talent
Abraham Maslow - Motivation and Personality
Henry Kissinger - On China
Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson - Why Nations Fail. The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel
John Maeda - The Laws of Simplicity. Design, Technology, Business, Life
Dan Senor, Saul Singer - Start-Up Nation. The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
Zbigniew Brzezinski - The Grand Chessboard. American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
Lee Kuan Yew - From Third World to First. The Singapore Story: 1965–2000
Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Nassim Taleb - The Black Swan. The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Sun Tzu - The Art of War. The Laws of War of the Venerable Master Sun
Thomas Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave
Al Gore - The Future
Jeffrey Gitomer - The Sales Bible
Jim Camp - Start with No. The Negotiating Tools That the Pros Don't Want You to Know
Neil Rackham - SPIN Selling. What to Do If the Client Does Not Want to Buy
Roger Fisher - Getting to Yes. Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Viktor Frankl - Say Yes to Life
Gerald Newmark - How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Children
Joe Navarro - What Every Body Is Saying
John Tierney - Willpower. Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Ian McDermott - The Art of Systems Thinking. Essential Knowledge About Systems and a Creative Approach to Solving Problems
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow. The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Meg Jay - The Defining Decade. Why You Shouldn’t Put Off Life Until Later
Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of Persuasion. 50 Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
Eric Berne - Games People Play
Adele Faber - How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Glenn Doman - How to Teach Your Baby to Read
John Gottman - The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John Gray - Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Masaru Ibuka - After Three, It's Too Late
Pamela Druckerman - Bringing Up Bébé
Richard Templar - The Rules of Parenting
Robert Bayard - Your Troubled Teen. A Practical Guide for Desperate Parents
Ross Campbell - How to Really Love Your Child
Harvey Karp - The Happiest Baby on the Block. What to Do When Your Baby Cries
Eda Shan - When Your Child Drives You Crazy
Yulia Gippenreiter - Communicate with Your Child. How